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Childhoods and memories all differ — what may be inauthentic to one is authentic to another — and so the gauge of authenticity is, in effect, so subjective as to be meaningless.

From Washington Post • Jan. 11, 2023

In her book Unequal Childhoods, Annette Lareau, a sociologist at the University of Pennsylvania, followed 12 families to see how parents’ incomes and attitudes affected their child rearing.

From Time • Aug. 5, 2013

I shall call it 'From Nine to Ninety, Reminiscences of the Fads of my First and Second Childhoods, by a Centenarian'.

From The Jolliest Term on Record A Story of School Life by Brazil, Angela