Create an environment in which your children never feel they have to develop allegiances as this causes anxiety and stress for them.
It goes far deeper: young readers are encouraged to feel concern for and develop allegiances to the plight of struggling human beings - everywhere.
Two Knicks officials and some of the executives with other teams said Layden had developed allegiances to certain players that might have kept him from trading them.
"It's the same reason you develop an allegiance to a hometown baseball team," he said.
But each is legendary in Paris, where citizens develop powerful allegiances not only to particular bakeries but to particular desserts and loaves of bread.
Over the years, he said he developed an allegiance to Mr. Madoff and thought of him as a mentor.
Traditional Democratic constituencies, he added, "developed an allegiance to the Democratic Party during Roosevelt with the New Deal".
"I almost feel like they're giving up already," said Kalin Woode, 29, a nurse who lives in New Hampshire but is originally from the Bronx, where she developed an allegiance to the Yankees.
As a girl on Scorpion Ranch she developed an allegiance to increasing the flock, one life at a time, guarding newborn lambs from the eviscerating beaks of native ravens.
"But there's a very interesting market when you look at displaced fans," he said, referring to fans who develop a team allegiance in one city, but then move to another.
As you lose your identity (shaved head, olive green fatigues), you are expected to develop a new allegiance to comrade and mission.
