Communal counterculture parents tolerated child-instrumented crime partly for material gain

Evidence

One of my roommates loved to take her shopping. It didn’t take me long to learn that he was using Viva as an accomplice to his chronic shoplifting. He paid for the produce but would hide expensive steaks in her underpants. Once I discovered this I put a stop to it and reprimanded him, but it wasn’t easy to give up the free meat. — Dolores DeLuce, Blow Jobs, 64

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the pattern in ‘A Very Minor Prophet’ and other depictions of counterculture communal living where children absorb adult dysfunction. — connects to: Peer groups rather than parents frequently impose social rules on children — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 2017; Tolerated illegality was a structural condition of Ancien Régime society — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 138
• CANDY: A shocking, funny-tragic tidbit about hiding steaks in a small child’s underpants.

Broader Connections

• Tolerated illegality was a structural condition of Ancien Régime society #expands (0.72) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 138
• Peer groups rather than parents frequently impose social rules on children #qualifies (0.70) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2017