question:  Why will adult psi contact hurt the children?
context: Nobody's been able to get near him for three weeks, and now at six o'clock this morning he decides he's leaving the Farm. "Full psi precautions?" asked Dorffman. If Tommy's in the trouble I think he's in, we don't dare risk a chance of Adult Contact now. The first was from Roberts Bros., announcing another shift of deadline on the book, and demanding the galley proofs two weeks earlier than scheduled. As director of psionic research at the Hoffman Medical Center, he had long since learned how administrative detail could suck up daytime hours. In recognition of your position as an authority on human Psionic behavior patterns, we would be gratified to schedule you as principle speaker at the Conference in Chicago on October 12th. "A Theory of Psionic Influence on Infant and Child Development." They were trying to study phenomena which made no sense, observing things that defied logic. And the more they struggled, the thicker and more impenetrable the bramble bush became— But now David Lessing had discovered a pathway through that jungle, a theory to work by— At his elbow the intercom buzzed. "Within the stronghold of psionic research at last. "I think you'd better wait before you do that," Melrose said sharply, "because I'm planning to take you apart at the Conference next month unless I like everything I see and hear down here today. "I want to hear this fairy tale you're about to publish in the name of 'Theory'," Melrose said. "If the papers you've already published are a preview, we think it's false as Satan." "So far, we haven't found any way to set up logical controls," said Melrose. "We haven't been energetic enough to find an orthodox approach that got us anywhere.
output:  Adult psi contact dampens the children's natural psionic abilities. Eventually, adult psi contact will snuff out a child's abilities altogether.
options:  Adult psi contact increases a child's psionic ability so much it can cause a psychotic break.  Adult psi contact overwhelms the children's brains. It gives them migraines.  Adult psi contact overwhelms the children's nervous systems. It gives them nose bleeds.  Adult psi contact dampens the children's natural psionic abilities. Eventually, adult psi contact will snuff out a child's abilities altogether.