Almost Quote by Jill Lepore

In my experience, there are plenty of bad middle-class parents: those who put their own lives and careers before those of their children and…

— Martin Jacques

“Social expectations about what constitutes a good or a bad mother haunt every decision, and the rise of the parental advice industry ensures that…

— Jessica Valenti

It's a terrible cruelty of predatory capitalism: both parents now have to work. A family has to have two incomes in order to buy…

— James Hillman

If in the earlier part of the century, middle-class children suffered from overattentive mothers, from being "mother's only accomplishment," today's children may suffer from…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

“That women bring home the bacon, fry it up, serve it for breakfast, and use its greasy remains to make candles for their children’s…

— Jennifer Senior

Mothers have not always had the most important role in their children's upbringing, when they had other economic roles to play. Inpast centuries, fathers…

— Sandra Scarr

Motherhood may be a 'killer' when it comes to becoming a Master of the Universe, but among middle-class mothers, even after that touch of…

— Chrystia Freeland

“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 provisions, while…

— Stephanie Coontz

One thing my and mother and dad shared completely was their approach to money - they just didn't spend it.

— Sam Walton

My parents were determined to move into the middle class.

— Martin Lewis Perl

Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which is a…

— Louisa May Alcott

As the middle class is predated upon with an ever greater malicious intensity, their children stand to lose more and harder than their parents…

— Henry Rollins