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
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
Marriage is generally based on more equality and deeper friendship than in the past, but even so, it is hard for it… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Valentine's Day is a perfect time to reject the idea that the ideal man is taller, richer, more knowledgeable, more renowned, or… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Too often, tributes to the home-cooked meal assume every family has a schedule that gets everyone home by 5:30 P.M. And too… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
As time passes, the actual complexity of our history - even of our own personal experience - gets buried under the weight… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Couples need time alone to renew their relationship. They also need to sustain supportive networks of friends and family. — 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
There's nothing wrong with celebrating the good things in our past. But memories, like witnesses, do not always tell the truth, the… — 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
You can't judge a family's health by the form it's in at a given moment. — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
When we assume that 'normal' people need 'time to heal,' or discourage individuals from making any decisions until a year or more… — 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
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
