The traditional spokespersons for the Evangelicals, such as Chuck Colson and James Dobson, have become alarmed about this drift away from the ‘Family Values’ issues that they believe should be the overwhelming concerns of Evangelicals. They have expressed their displeasure in letters of protest circulated through the religious media. 623
Most Evangelicals claim to be politically non-partisan, and say they only identify with the Republican Party because the Republicans are committed to ‘family values.’ 2.47K
Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care. 694
Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes. 677
Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction. 619
Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live. 1.16K
My father died when I was nine, but I came from a stable family environment, which I think does contribute to being well-behaved. 2.35K
To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense. 2.05K
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature. 630
There were never any doctors in my family. But my grandparents and my mother had a strong social conscience that was formative. 2.35K
I’m so centered in feeling great about me that I can give great things to my son and my husband and my family. 1.35K
I started at 5 years old in the kitchen table with my family supporting me. I know where I’m from and I know exactly where I’m going. 673
We all started snowboarding in the beginning as a family just to be closer together, go on trips. It was our soccer, but instead of Dad yelling at me from the sideline he is there riding with me and hitting the jumps even before I am hitting them. 632
If you live in a good neighborhood, you drive home and there’s a bank. There’s grocery stores and big houses – but no motels. What that tells you psychologically is you protect your money and buy good things for your family to eat in your nice big house. 1.55K
If you live in a ghetto and really want not to just change your life and your family’s life but change your ghetto’s life, make your ghetto a good neighbourhood, learn science; try to be like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. 641
Here’s the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family. 712
I like all the families in the U.K. But what I like about the idea of the royal family is… they seem like they’re well educated and there’s something admirable about them. And the Queen… she reminds me of my grandma. 2.5K
