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" Feminism needs a political program because gender inequality has been fostered by political decisions. "
Stephanie Coontz
Decisions
Political
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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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" As Americans lose the wider face-to-face ties that build social trust, they become more dependent on romantic relationships for intimacy and deep communication and more vulnerable to isolation if a relationship breaks down. "
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" Usually, Valentine's Day comes and goes with just a day or two of news media attention to courtship and marriage. "
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" Social changes always involve trade-offs. "
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" Graduating from high school is certainly a good idea, but it's no longer much protection against poverty. "
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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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" 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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" Indeed, the spread of 'virtual' communities on the Internet speaks to a deep hunger to reach out to others. "
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" Second marriages can and do create 'real' families. "
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Create
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" There is no denying that we have made great progress toward gender equality. "
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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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" The growing diversity of family life comes with new possibilities as well as new challenges. "
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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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Values
Faith
Christian
" 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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Women
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" For a century, women have binged on romance novels that encouraged them to associate intimidation with infatuation; it's no wonder that this emotional hangover still lingers. "
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Women
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" One thing standing in the way of further progress for many men is the same obstacle that held women back for so long: overinvestment in their gender identity instead of their individual personhood. "
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Identity
Women
Progress
" 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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Choice
Life
Possible
" Trump made his fortune manipulating tax laws and stiffing small businessmen, creating a few well-paying jobs along the way. Vulnerable people looking to master 'the art of the deal' learned the hard way that Trump held all the cards. "
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People
Looking
Art
" 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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Detail
Care
Children
" Throughout history, people with few educational or economic resources and little bargaining power have often looked to authoritarian, ruthless people to stand up for them. "
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" Using the existence of a marriage license to determine when the state should protect interpersonal relationships is increasingly impractical. "
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Existence
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" Americans are right to believe the American Dream is fading. But that dream only became a possibility for white men as a result of the labor struggles and reforms of the New Deal, and it began to extend to minorities and women only after the civil rights and women's movements of the 1960s and 1970s. "
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American Dream
Women
Men
" 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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Home
Treat
Time
" Giving married women an independent legal existence did not destroy heterosexual marriage. And allowing husbands and wives to construct their marriages around reciprocal duties and negotiated roles - where a wife can choose to be the main breadwinner and a husband can stay home with the children - was an immense boon to many couples. "
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Children
Women
Wife
" Presidents Reagan and the first George Bush never used the vile language of some Trump supporters, but both blamed scarce resources and decaying communities on 'welfare queens' and black criminals like Willie Horton. "
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Like
Resources
Never
" In 1975, which was the height of the women's movement, I thought I'd write a book on women's history. But in searching for a topic, I realized that there were few places in history where men and women interacted. Finally, it hit me: 'Oh, look at the family. That's the one place.' "
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Women
Family
Book
" Donald Trump has tapped into a deep vein of racism, nativism, and misogyny. "
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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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