The Cairo conference ... is about a complicated web of education and employment, consumption and poverty, development and health c...are. It is also about whether governments will follow where women have so clearly led them, toward safe, simple and reliable choices in family planning. While Cairo crackles with conflict, in the homes of the world the orthodoxies have been duly heard, and roundly ignored.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we can get that realistic feminine morality working for us, if we can trust ourselves and so let women think and feel that an u...nwanted child or an oversize family is wrong--not ethically wrong, not against the rules, but morally wrong, all wrong, wrong like a thalidomide birth, wrong like taking a wrong step that will break your neck--if we can get feminine and human morality out from under the yoke of a dead ethic, then maybe we'll begin to get somewhere on the road that leads to survival.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 aspiring immigrant ... is not content to progress alone. Solitary success is imperfect success in his eyes. He must take h...is family with him as he rises.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The naturalistic literature of this country has reached such a state that no family of characters is considered true to life which... does not include at least two hypochondriacs, one sadist, and one old man who spills food down the front of his vest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I come from a long line of male chauvinists in a very traditional family. To rebel against my background, I didn't shoot dope--I m...arried a working woman.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... what's been building since the 1980's is a new kind of social Darwinism that blames poverty and crime and the crisis of our yo...uth on a breakdown of the family. That's what will last after this flurry on family values.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Like plowing, housework makes the ground ready for the germination of family life. The kids will not invite a teacher home if beer... cans litter the living room. The family isn't likely to have breakfast together if somebody didn't remember to buy eggs, milk, or muffins. Housework maintains an orderly setting in which family life can flourish.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »