Aggressive Quote by Kenneth Keniston

Today's parents have little authority over those others with whom they share the task of raising their children. On the contrary,most parents deal with…

— Kenneth Keniston

The myth of the self-sufficient individual and of the self-sufficient, protected, and protective familytells us that those who need help are ultimately inadequate. And…

— Kenneth Keniston

Confronted with the unhappy facts of exclusion, we sometimes reassure ourselves by telling stories: the poor boys who made it, theblacks who became a…

— Kenneth Keniston

Within forty years of their arrival in the Plymouth colony, the first white settlers were afraid their children had lost the dedication and religious…

— Kenneth Keniston

Recognizing that family self-sufficiency is a false myth, we also need to acknowledge that all today's families need help in raising children. The problem…

— Kenneth Keniston

The psychological pain--and the ethical shame--of American poverty are made greater by the fact that this country possesses the wealth and the energy to…

— Kenneth Keniston

Mothers work outside the home for many reasons; one of them is almost always because their families need their income to live up to…

— Kenneth Keniston

In the end, the fate of children depends on our ability to use technology constructively and carefully. The connection of childrenand technology is not…

— Kenneth Keniston

One current reaction to change in families, for example, is the proposal for more "education for parenthood," on the theory that this training will…

— Kenneth Keniston

The most important difference between these early American families and our own is that early families constituted economic unitsin which all members, from young…

— Kenneth Keniston

Poor children live in a particularly dangerous world--an urban world of broken stair railings, of busy streets serving as playgrounds, of lead paint, rats…

— Kenneth Keniston

Parents still have primary responsibility for raising children, but they must have the power to do so in ways consistent with their children's needs…

— Kenneth Keniston