Century Quote by Gary Becker

“Like most visions of a 'golden age', the 'traditional family' evaporates on closer examination. It is an ahistorical amalgam of structures, values, and behaviors…

— Stephanie Coontz

“The ‘family’, in the sense in which the term is used today, emerged only after a long process of historical development. The many figures…

— Carole Pateman

“The form of family corresponding to civilization and coming to definite supremacy with it is monogamy, the domination of the man over the woman,…

— Frederick Engels

The American notion of family is perhaps the most romanticized, deep-rooted, and misery-producing fantasy of the last hundred years.

— Joy Browne

The family is the engine that drives civilization. Throughout history, those cultures that have failed to found their rules and attitudes of society on…

— Jeremiah Denton

“The modern family is one in which the divergent values of our separate souls are supported, valued, encouraged. Diversity is not just tolerated, it…

— James Hollis

A family shares hardships and a connected history.

— Kamala Harris

“Although the social science construction of reality tends to emphasize how families differ from one another, I began to see that knowledge of what…

— Edwin H. Friedman

The history of any private family, however humble, could it be fully related for five or six generations, would illustrate the state and progress…

— Robert Southey

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

— Charles R. Swindoll

It is now clear to me that the family is a microcosm of the world. To understand the world, we can study the family:…

— Virginia Satir

Under the old philosophy which had governed the high Middle Ages things had been everywhere towards a condition of Society in which property was…

— Hilaire Belloc