The goal in raising one's child is to enable him, first, to discover who he wants to be, and then to become a person who can be sa...tisfied with himself and his way of life. Eventually he ought to be able to do in his life whatever seems important, desirable, and worthwhile to him to do; to develop relations with other people that are constructive, satisfying, mutually enriching; and to bear up well under the stresses and hardships he will unavoidably encounter during his life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Families need families. Parents need to be parented. Grandparents, aunts, and uncles are back in fashion because they are necessar...y. Stresses on many families are out of proportion to anything two parents can handle.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 »
It is comedy which typifies, where it is tragedy which individualizes; where tragedy observes the nice distinctions between man an...d man, comedy stresses those broad resemblances which make it difficult to tell people apart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Croft had an instinctive knowledge of land, sensed the stresses and torsions that had first erupted it, the abrasions of wind and ...water. The platoon had long ceased to question any direction he took; they knew he would be right as infallibly as sun after darkness or fatigue after a long march.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That daily the night falls; that over stresses and torments, cares and sorrows the blessing of sleep unfolds, stilling and quenchi...ng them; that every anew this draught of refreshment and lethe is offered to our parching lips, ever after the battle this mildness laves our shaking limbs, that from it, purified from sweat and dust and blood, strengthened, renewed, rejuvenated, almost innocent once more, almost with pristine courage and zeal we may go forth again--these I hold to be the benignest, the most moving of all the great facts of life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We need a new kind of feminism, one that stresses personal responsibility and is open to art and sex in all their dark, unconsolin...g mysteries. The feminist of the fin de siècle will be bawdy, streetwise, and on-the-spot confrontational, in the prankish Sixties way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As a pastoral game, baseball attempts to close the gap between the players and the crowd. It creates the illusion, for instance, t...hat with a lot a hard work, a little luck, and possibly some extra talent, the average spectator might well be playing; not watching. For most of us can do a few of the things that ball players can do: catch a pop-up, field a ground ball, and maybe get a hit once in a while.... As a heroic game, football is not concerned with a shared community of near-equals. It seeks almost the opposite relationship between its spectators and players, one which stresses the distance between them. We are not allowed to identify directly with Jim Brown any more than we are with Zeus, because to do so would undercut his stature as something more than human.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
American families, however, without exception, experience a double message in our society, one that claims a commitment to familie...s and stresses the importance of raising bright, stable, productive citizens, yet remains so bound by an ideal of "rugged individualism" that parents receive little support in their task from the public or private sectors.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »