Quotes About Family

women now share the economic burden of their families, very few Egyptian men are prepared to share the housework. To

What are my sources of strength? My husband and my three kids, my health-care team, and my religion.

You aren't stupid, Lillian,' said Uncle Victor, smiling and shaking his head, 'but sometimes the things you do are.

The single-parent family, far from being a modern problem, existed at close to today's level for much of this country's history—because of accidents, illness, and high mortality rates, rather than divorce. In 1930, there were more than three million female-headed households.)

From Colonial times to the present, children have lived with a bewildering variety of caretaking systems. Some, in the bosom of their families, have been looked after by women other than their mothers. Some have been herded into institutions or sent away from home or exposed to substitute mothers in one arrangement or another. America's historical amnesia has let the details of many of these arrangements slip into oblivion, forcing society to make a fresh start again and again.

This airline is grateful for his extensive contributions and we will miss his friendship and support. We extend our deepest sympathies to the Casey family on its personal loss.

Don't let anyone tell you you aren't good enough. You are good enough; You are too good. Love your family with all your heart and listen to it.

God is looking within each family for one intercessor who will "stand in the gap" and "put up a hedge" for the entire household.

The real theater of the sex war is the domestic hearth.

Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws.

The point of an organi family is to release the children from the disadvantages of being extensions of their parents so that they can belong primarily to themselves. They may accept the services that adults perform for them naturally without establishing dependencies.

If women could regard childbearing not as a duty or an inescapable destiny but as a privilege to be worked for, the ay a man might work for the right to have a family, children might grow up without the burden of gratitude for the gift of life which they never asked for.

We can only afford two children' really means, 'We only like clean, well-disciplined middle-class children who go to good schools and grow up to be professionals', for children manage to use up all the capital that is made available for the purpose, whatever proportion it may be of the family's whole income, just as housework expands to fill the time available.

We can only afford two children' is a squalid argument, but more acceptable in our society than 'we don't like children'.

If women could regard childbearing not as a duty or an inescapable destiny but as a privilege to be worked for, the way a man might work for the right to have a family, children might grow up without the burden of gratitude for the gift of life which they never asked for.

At your age?' My ass. As long as I feed & support my family, do my job & do it well, I'll act any age as I damn well please.

Aw, dad... this isn't another one of those "oh, you're LUCKY you didn't have to peck dry corn and uncooked rice off the dirt!" kind of thing is it?

They didn't really have a childhood. Just them and Mom and then her liver went and she died and it was just them. Except they never learned to be grown-ups. And they never learned to be just kids, either. Stuck in never-never land. Kinda sad.

I grew up in a big Irish, Catholic family. My dad was a pretty rough guy. So one of my brothers left home when he was 15 and found his way to the gym. It gave me the opportunity to go and spend some time with him and work out in the gym.

But when tomorrow came, the children had more than bread and milk, as you will soon see.

Gertrude Chandler Warner

sister living in Canada. She is always writing to me

Mr. Alden and Henry decided to take turns putting wood on the fire during the night. There was plenty of wood. They all lay down in a row. Benny was on one side of Grandfather, and Violet was on the other.

That's what I was doing the day you children found me in your grandfather's room." Mr.