Children Quote by Stephen Marche

A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love.

— Gray Davis

In colonial America, the father was the primary parent. . . . Over the past two hundred years, each generation of fathers has hadless…

— Frank Pittman

Patriarchy's chief institution is the family. It is both a mirror of and a connection with the larger society; a patriarchal unit within a…

— Kate Middleton

The Western notion of masculinity goes back a long way. It doesn’t allow for women, and it’s also racist - it doesn’t allow for…

— Larry McMurtry

I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal.

— Robert Bly

“In a culture which holds the two-parent patriarchal family in higher esteem than any other arrangement, all children feel emotionally insecure when their family…

— bell hooks

Families were living separately from the fathers. And so although, according to African culture, men were the head of the household, the truth is…

— Trevor Noah

There's room for many definitions of masculinity in the modern era.

— Kemp Muhl

To us the family is the cornerstone of civilization and must ever be. It is the foundation of proper human relationships.

— Mark E. Petersen

“The patriarchal family was only the most recent in a string of 'primary' social organizations, all of which defined woman as a different species…

— Shulamith Firestone

It's interesting, I'm from a really conservative, suburban town, and a majority of my family are very patriarchal. I mean, I love my family…

— Ashnikko

I just think that unless you have that cohesiveness in the family unit, the male character tends to become very dominant, repressive and insensitive.…

— Ellen Johnson Sirleaf