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" Cohabitation itself doesn't cause ineffective parenting. "

Stephanie Coontz

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" If the ascent of women has been much exaggerated, so has the descent of men. "

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" In my work as a historian and in my relationships as a friend, teacher, wife, and mother, I have come to think that the most useful way to understand the past and make it work for you is to look at the trade-offs and contradictions that, however deeply buried, can be uncovered in every memory, good or bad. "

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" When you can't change what's bothering you, one typical response is to convince yourself that it doesn't actually bother you. "

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" It is ironic that so many politicians claim to defend traditional Christian values of 'faith and family.' In fact, a radical antifamily ideology permeates Christ's teaching, and the early Christian tradition often set faith and family against each other. "

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" As an overly confident college freshman, the first time I received a below-average score on an exam was a needed wake-up call. "

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" It no longer makes sense to see singlehood and marriage as two distinct and stable social categories that should be accorded different legal rights and social esteem. "

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" Nostalgia is a very human trait. "

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" Second marriages can and do create 'real' families. "

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" During the 1960s, rising real wages for low-income and high-income workers, due in part to rapid economic growth and the spread of unionization, worked in tandem with expanding government support systems to improve Americans' well-being. "

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" Liberal politicians, in celebrating the benefits of modernization, free trade, diverse families, and the rise of more women and minorities into political and economic prominence, have often glossed over the pain of white blue-collar communities. "

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" A primary motivation for introducing no-fault divorce was, in fact, to reduce perjury in the legal system. "

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" Feminism needs a political program because gender inequality has been fostered by political decisions. "

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" Contrary to myth, 'The Feminine Mystique' and feminism did not represent the beginning of the decline of the stay-at-home mother but a turning point that led to much stronger legal rights and 'working conditions' for her. "

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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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" Averages are useful because many traits, behaviors, and outcomes are distributed in a bell-shaped curve, with most results clustered around the middle and a much smaller group of outliers at the high and low ends. "

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" Inequality was written into the creation of the American Republic when our Founding Fathers denied voting rights to women. "

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" Social changes always involve trade-offs. "

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

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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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" 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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" You can't judge a family's health by the form it's in at a given moment. "

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" No single choice about how to organize work and family life is right or possible - for every family. And every choice has tradeoffs. "

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" Especially around Valentine's Day, it's easy to find advice about sustaining a successful marriage, with suggestions for 'date nights' and romantic dinners for two. But as we spend more and more of our lives outside marriage, it's equally important to cultivate the skills of successful singlehood. "

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" As a historian, I've spent much of my career warning people about the dangers of nostalgia. "

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" 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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