Marriage is no longer the only place where people make major life transitions and decisions, enter into commitments, or incur obligations. — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
There is one group of people - social conservatives, religious conservatives - who honestly feel that women's place is in the home… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Throughout history, people with few educational or economic resources and little bargaining power have often looked to authoritarian, ruthless people to stand… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
As soon as love became the driving force behind marriage, people began to demand the right to remain single if they had… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Because we live so much of our adult lives as singles, it no longer makes sense to assume that marriage is the… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
As a historian, I've spent much of my career warning people about the dangers of nostalgia. — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
People feel better when their spouses have good friendships, over and above the effects of their own friendships. — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
There is a lack of collective support or social support for working people in America. We're told, "You can be, as an… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Singlehood is not longer a state to be overcome as soon as possible. It has its own rewards. Marriage is not the… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
I think that divorce is a vital escape hatch for people stuck in marriage and it is not a sentence of doom… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Families have always been in flux and often in crisis; they have never lived up to nostalgic notions about "the way things… — 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
