Best quotes by Stephanie Coontz on Family
Checkout quotes by Stephanie Coontz on Family
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‟ In personal life, the warm glow of nostalgia amplifies good memories and minimizes bad ones about experiences and relationships, encouraging us to revisit and renew our ties with friends and family. It always involves a little harmless self-deception, like forgetting the pain of childbirth.
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‟ Feminism insists on women's right to make choices - about whether to marry, whether to have children, whether to combine work and family or to focus on one over the other. It also urges men and women to share the joys and burdens of family life and calls on society to place a higher priority on supporting caregiving work.
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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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‟ The growing diversity of family life comes with new possibilities as well as new challenges.
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‟ Rising inequality has changed family dynamics for all socioeconomic groups.
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‟ Couples need time alone to renew their relationship. They also need to sustain supportive networks of friends and family.
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