...Do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife, for the child conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. She will bear a son, and yo...u are to name him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish or... a German girl scrubbing floors in that home, a Welsh boy mining coal to keep the home-baked goodies warm, a black girl doing the family laundry, a black mother and child picking cotton to be made into clothes for the family, and a Jewish or an Italian daughter in a sweatshop making "ladies" dresses or artificial flowers for the family to purchase.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the child is twelve, your wife buys her a splendidly silly article of clothing called a training bra. To train what? I never ...had a training jock. And believe me, when I played football, I could have used a training jock more than any twelve-year-old needs a training bra.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Manners would be the standards of conduct that prevail in a group, large or small, and hence they would change from group to group... and year to year. Morals would be defined as the standards that determine the relations of individuals with other individuals, one with one--a child with each of its parents, a husband with his wife, a rich man with a poor man (not the rich and the poor)--and also the relations of any man with himself, his destiny, and his God. They are answers found by individuals to the old problems of faith, hope, charity or love, art, duty, submission to one's fate ... and hence they are relatively universal; they can be illustrated from the lives of any individuals, in any place, at any time since the beginning of time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Even healthy families need outside sources of moral guidance to keep those tensions from imploding--and this means, among other th...ings, a public philosophy of gender equality and concern for child welfare. When instead the larger culture aggrandizes wife beaters, degrades women or nods approvingly at child slappers, the family gets a little more dangerous for everyone, and so, inevitably, does the larger world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Housekeeping is not beautiful; it cheers and raises neither the husband, the wife, nor the child; neither the host nor the guest; ...it oppresses women. A house kept to the end of prudence is laborious without joy; a house kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why should we assume the faults of our friend, or wife, or father, or child, because they sit around our hearth, or are said to ha...ve the same blood?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It ...is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Yancey Cravat! You let that hussy in black tights have your claim after having been gone a whole month, away from your wife and ch...ild!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While violent families often suffer from the stresses of poverty, family violence occurs at all levels of the social class structu...re. Researchers have repeatedly found violent families, whether rich or poor, to be characterized by high levels of social isolation, rigid sex-role stereotyping, poor communication, and extreme inequalities in the distribution of power among family members. These characteristics are consistently noted, whether the studies are wife battering, child abuse, or abuse of the elderly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »