The mere idea of marriage, as a strong possibility, if not always nowadays a reasonable likelihood, existing to weaken the will by... distracting its straight aim in the life of practically every young girl, is the simple secret of their confessed inferiority in men's pursuits and professions to-day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sustained unemployment not only denies parents the opportunity to meet the food, clothing, and shelter needs of their children but... also denies them the sense of adequacy, belonging, and worth which being able to do so provides. This increases the likelihood of family problems and decreases the chances of many children to be adequately prepared for school.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These, then, will be some of the features of democracy ... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, particolored comm...onwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It seems to me that science has a much greater likelihood of being true in the main than any philosophy hitherto advanced (I do no...t, of course, except my own). In science there are many matters about which people are agreed; in philosophy there are none. Therefore, although each proposition in a science may be false, and it is practically certain that there are some that are false, yet we shall be wise to build our philosophy upon science, because the risk of error in philosophy is pretty sure to be greater than in science. If we could hope for certainty in philosophy, the matter would be otherwise, but so far as I can see such a hope would be a chimerical.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Social and demographic changes have combined to diminish the likelihood that families can assure their children's healthy growth a...nd development without help from outside the family--at the very time that there is a growing skepticism about the desirability and workability of societal action to provide the supports that families require.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »