Will remain unhurt by governmental assistance...

Hello,

Could anyone explain/paraphrase the meanings of the sentences in purple, red and blue?

1/ In this chapter, the author is talking about low self-sufficiency of people. But I don't understand how "government is involved"-- governmental parternalism.

2/ What do the words in red mean? Do the words mean there's a fault in self-sufficiency that causes the problem in the people who are self-sufficiency?

3/ What do the words in blue mean?

What do the governmental assistance refer to?

Many thanks!

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(from Conditioned Reflex Therapy by Salter)

To build a happy child parents need be guided by only two
precepts:
1. Give the child a great deal of love. Not "smother" love, but a feeling of being appreciated and encouraged. The child who feels loved, i.e., accepted by his environment, will be welladjusted.
2. Don't over-protect the child. Let him learn the hard way, through doing and through experience.

That is all that is necessary. It will be easy if the parents are excitational, lf they are not, they will have to be on their best behavior.

There is some basis for the distress of those who fear the effects of governmental paternalism. But the only ones whose self-sufficiency it impairs are those whose self-sufficiency was faulty in the first place. Those who have always been selfsufficient, but have been the victims of circumstance, will remain unhurt by governmental assistance. We see once more that what matters is not the stimulus, but the kind of organism that receives it.