A family's responses to crisis or to a new situation mirror those of a child. That is to say, the way a small child deals with a n...ew challenge (for instance, learning to walk) has certain predictable stages: regression, anxiety, mastery, new energy, growth, and feedback for future achievement. These stages can also be seen in adults coping with new life events, whether positive or negative.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One of the duties which devolve upon women in the present interesting crisis, is to prepare themselves for more extensive usefulne...ss, by making use of those religious and literary privileges and advantages that are within their reach, if they will only stretch out their hands and possess them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The easiest period in a crisis situation is actually the battle itself. The most difficult is the period of indecision--whether to... fight or run away. And the most dangerous period is the aftermath. It is then, with all his resources spent and his guard down, that an individual must watch out for dulled reactions and faulty judgment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the servic...e of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NO...W deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Pessimists say that the family is eroding. Optimists say the family is diversifying. Both points of view are right. Families are m...ore diverse and they are more in trouble--but not because of their diversity. The families of today--whatever their size or shape--are in crisis because our economy is failing, our national resources are shrinking, and our governmental policies to support them are inadequate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The mother whose self-image is dependent on her children places on those children the responsibility for her own identity, and her... involvement in the details of their lives can put great pressure on the children. A child suffers when everything he or she does is extremely important to a parent; this kind of over-involvement can turn even a small problem into a crisis.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the transpolitical is that of ano...maly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
White lies are at the other end of the spectrum of deception from lies in a serious crisis. They are the most common and the most ...trivial forms that duplicity can take. The fact that they are so common provides their protective coloring. And their very triviality, when compared to more threatening lies, makes it seem unnecessary or even absurd to condemn them. Some consider all well-intentioned lies, however momentous, to be white; I shall adhere to the narrower usage: a white lie, in this sense, is a falsehood not meant to injure anyone, and of little moral import.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »