What we often take to be family values--the work ethic, honesty, clean living, marital fidelity, and individual responsibility--ar...e in fact social, religious, or cultural values. To be sure, these values are transmitted by parents to their children and are familial in that sense. They do not, however, originate within the family. It is the value of close relationships with other family members, and the importance of these bonds relative to other needs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Despite the long-term reduction in familial roles and functions, we believe that parents are still the world's greatest experts ab...out the needs of their own children. Virtually any private or public program that supports parents, effectively supports children. This principle of supporting family vitality seems to us preferable to any policy that would have the state provide children directly with what it thinks they need.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan c...ondition--hyper-density--without once losing faith in it as the basis for a desirable modern culture. Manhattan's architecture is a paradigm for the exploitation of congestion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That, of course, was the thing about the fifties with all their patina of familial bliss: A lot of the memories were not happy, no...t mine, not my friends'. That's probably why the myth so endures, because of the dissonance in our lives between what actually went on at home and what went on up there on those TV screens where we were allegedly seeing ourselves reflected back.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Particularly in the early years of the child's development, parents may get different opinions from professionals who view the chi...ld in different settings. A pediatrician seeing the child in a busy office diagnoses "attention deficit disorder"; a nursery school teacher who observes the child in an unruly classroom calls him "hyperactive" ... a psychologist or psychiatrist ... decides he's very active but not "hyper" and talks of emotional and family problems; while a neurologist, meeting with the child on a one-to-one basis,... says he is "normal."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »