This is not a movement towards atheism, as many horrified adults believe.
"Firebird" was a fairy tale in which adults could believe.
Many young adults believe cohabitation is a good way to test their relationships prior to marriage.
It was as if adults automatically believed they had no thoughts on anything save what the adults wanted them to think.
"I thought no adults could see the monster, or believe in it."
So many adults believe that their kids would never do such a thing, but the sad fact is, those kids are probably the ones on drugs.
"But adults don't believe in monsters under the bed," Gloha protested.
The problem for many is that adults don't believe in them.
When the thing had happened, the adults had believed him and not her, when he'd said she'd done it to herself.
But adults may believe that these symptoms are normal in children.