Stephanie Coontz Quotes

American - Author | August 31, 1944 -

Parents who obsess about every detail of child-rearing and orchestrate their children's 'resumes' may run themselves ragged while their own personal identities and adult relationships wither for lack of care.

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Too often, tributes to the home-cooked meal assume every family has a schedule that gets everyone home by 5:30 P.M. And too many recipes treat cooking as a solitary pursuit that requires the cook - still most often Mom - to take time away from other family interactions and chores.

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As a child, I was lucky enough to spend each summer with my grandmother.

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Cooking ought to be, quite literally, child's play. And every child ought to have access to the game. Just don't tell them it's healthy.

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Marriage is no longer the main way in which societies regulate sexuality and parenting or organize the division of labor between men and women.

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As soon as love became the driving force behind marriage, people began to demand the right to remain single if they had not found love or to divorce if they fell out of love.

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We must recognize that there are healthy as well as unhealthy ways to be single or to be divorced, just as there are healthy and unhealthy ways to be married.

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Economically as well as emotionally, modern marriage has become like an affluent gated community. It has become harder for low-income Americans to enter and sustain.

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The notion that marriage is an impediment to commitments to the larger community is a long-standing one - and one reason early Christians did not place the institution at the top of their moral hierarchy, complaining that married couples cared more about pleasing each other than doing the Lord's work.

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The place where we keep our clothes isn't always the only place where we keep our commitments.

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When I speak on work-family issues to audiences around the country, some of the biggest complaints I hear come from individuals who are described by the census as living in 'non-family households.' They resent the fact that their family responsibilities literally don't 'count,' either for society or for their employers.

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Over the ages, some societies have accorded far less value and respect to singles than to married individuals.

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