That your children orient themselves in a direction opposed to your designs...

...has more to do with you than with your neighbor, and more to do with you, certainly, than with an earthquake in some distant latitude.

What makes your way of life a model, a pattern that you have the right to impose on others?

You wish to impose your way of life upon another; you wish to impose your vocation upon another. But who has told you that you are an example that must be followed? Who has told you that you can impose a way of life because it pleases you? What makes your way of life a model, a pattern that you have the right to impose on others? This, then, is another form of violence.