Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family. 645
Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch ‘American Idol’ and video their children’s concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do. 622
In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it’s not perfect, that’s okay, there are a lot more coming along. 681
Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family. 595
Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free. 608
Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there’s always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires. 1.82K
People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult. 624
The Hispanic community understands the American Dream and have not forgotten what they were promised – that in the U.S., a free market system, allows us all to succeed economically, achieve stability and security for your family and leave your children better off than yourselves. 656
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. 1.28K
I’m just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit. 637
Now is the moment when we can stand up and say, ‘I’m an American. I make my destiny. And we deserve better! My children deserve better! My family deserves better. My country deserves better!’ So here we stand. Americans have a choice. 1.01K
I was angry and frustrated until I started my own family and my first child was born. Until then I didn’t really appreciate life the way I should have, but fortunately I woke up. 628
To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others. 638
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning. 673
I love children and I get along with them great. It’s just that I believe if you’re going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, ‘I want a family.’ I don’t feel that sense of urgency. 629
