Parents who obsess about every detail of child-rearing and orchestrate their children's 'resumes' may run themselves ragged while their own personal identities… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
A two-parent family based on love and commitment can be a wonderful thing, but historically speaking the "two-parent paradigm" has left an… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Educated parents find more time to spend with their children by reducing time dedicated to home-based activities that involve little interaction with… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
“Despite the rhetorical reverence our society accords motherhood and fatherhood, in reality the everyday work of parenting garners little social respect and… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Hyper-parenting has many pitfalls. Overprotected and overpraised children may develop an inflated sense of entitlement. — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Marriage is no longer the main way in which societies regulate sexuality and parenting or organize the division of labor between men… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Sometimes, having a mom stay home is a big help. On the other hand, when a mother works outside the home, her… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Being a feminist is not about how successful, talented, and assertive you are in your own life. It's about whether you support… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
In my work as a historian and in my relationships as a friend, teacher, wife, and mother, I have come to think… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
The real gender inequality in marriage stems from the tendency to regard women as the default parent, the one who, in the… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Deciding together to have a child and sharing in child-rearing do not immunize a marriage. Indeed, collaborative couples can face other problems.… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Labeling people single parents, for example, when they may in fact be co-parenting - either with an unmarried other parent in the… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
I've had the kind of complex life I write about. I was a single mother for 12 years. I'd been engaged. The… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
When parents are educated about how not to involve children in their conflicts and co-parent amicably, a lot of the ill effects… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
“It wasn't until the 1920s that a bare majority of children grew up in families where the father's labor purchased the family's… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish ora German girl… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
As an overly confident college freshman, the first time I received a below-average score on an exam was a needed wake-up call. — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share
For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish ora German girl scrubbing floors… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share
A primary motivation for introducing no-fault divorce was, in fact, to reduce perjury in the legal system. — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share
Graduating from high school is certainly a good idea, but it's no longer much protection against poverty. — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share
Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to people with… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share
Investing in living-wage jobs and reducing the inequities between local school districts would give young people more, not less, incentive to postpone childbearing and… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share
Hyper-parenting has many pitfalls. Overprotected and overpraised children may develop an inflated sense of entitlement. — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share
Social and economic policies constructed around the male breadwinner model have always disadvantaged women. — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share
When I speak on work-family issues to audiences around the country, some of the biggest complaints I hear come from individuals who are described… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share
Extended families have never been the norm in America; the highest figure for extended-family households ever recorded in Americanhistory is 20 percent. Contrary to… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share
Unilateral divorce has decreased the bargaining power of the person who wants the marriage to last and has not engaged in behavior that meets… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share
The closer we get to achieving equality of opportunity between the sexes, the more clearly we can see that the next major obstacle to… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share
Families have always been in flux and often in crisis; they have never lived up to nostalgic notions about "the way things used tobe."… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share
A significant minority of senior women I've interviewed say, 'Love the companionship, glad to live with him, but I spent my first marriage picking… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share
Marriage can provide a bounty of emotional, practical, and financial support. But finding the right mate is no substitute for having friends and other… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share
