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
Hyper-parenting has many pitfalls. Overprotected and overpraised children may develop an inflated sense of entitlement. — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Extended families have never been the norm in America; the highest figure for extended-family households ever recorded in Americanhistory is 20 percent.… — 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
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
Feminism insists on women's right to make choices - about whether to marry, whether to have children, whether to combine work and… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
The worst problems for children stem from parental conflict, before, during, and after divorce or within marriage. — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
There is no going back to a time when most women will feel compelled to enter or stay in a bad marriage… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Women are told that we can have the most exciting, glamorous, demanding, rewarding careers ever but we also have to be constantly… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Cooking ought to be, quite literally, child's play. And every child ought to have access to the game. Just don't tell them… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
As a child, I was lucky enough to spend each summer with my grandmother. — 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
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
“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
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 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
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 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 scrubbing floors… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
A primary motivation for introducing no-fault divorce was, in fact, to reduce perjury in the legal system. — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Graduating from high school is certainly a good idea, but it's no longer much protection against poverty. — 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 people with… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
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 Image
Hyper-parenting has many pitfalls. Overprotected and overpraised children may develop an inflated sense of entitlement. — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Social and economic policies constructed around the male breadwinner model have always disadvantaged women. — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
