"An analysis of adolescent development of domies is complicated by the fact that so many have been orphaned by the pre-dome conditions their parents faced. A young wizard at computer games who lives in the back of an arcade lives and sleeps in an old leather jacket. A first assumption that he wore this old relic of outside days as a protest against the sterility of the domes was later tempered by research showing it had belonged to his late father, the engineer who led construction of the dome. In a world in which he has no remaining family, is sleeping within this old leather jacket the nearest heÆll ever come to knowing a parentÆs embrace?"

— From HanginÆ with My Domies: A Study of Adolescent Behavior Within Domed Communities