You have to make a family where you can find it.
"Stephanie Coontz" is an author, historian, and faculty member at The Evergreen State College/Evergreen State College. She teaches history and family studies and is Director of Research and Public Education for the Council on Contemporary Families, which she chaired from 2001-2004. Coontz has authored and co-edited several books about the history of the family and marriage.
More Stephanie Coontz on Wikipedia.Life is filled with trade-offs, and I worry that it's so easy to slip from descriptions of problems to one-size-fits-all prescription.
We need to get that back.
The worst problems for children stem from parental conflict, before, during, and after divorce or within marriage.
This is a new phenomenon ? not the mercenary quality, but the fact that people are willing to risk this kind of money, just to say they're married. Love has been so idealized that at the top, the rich are willing to throw good money after bad to see if they can get the magic ring.
Marriage, A History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage.
Nostalgia wouldn't begin to capture your sense of loss, ... The Way We Really Are: Coming to Terms With America's Changing Families.
The depth and influence of the radicalism of the late 1960s and early 1970s are often exaggerated.
The only thing that can replace (the emptiness) is a new sense of community. It's more than the sum of the individual losses.
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