Might it be a certain failure to answer these questions which makes this statement seem
a worrying anachronism: «The number constantly swells of the people who raise the most basic questions or recognise them with a new sharpness» (10).
«Parents
worry that their child must need his thumb, and they'll be taking away something he'll need; but it's an
anachronism,» said Dr. Susan Heitler, a clinical psychologist in Denver and the author of a children's book on the topic, «David Decides: No More Thumbsucking» (1993, Avon, $ 8).