Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

Apathy is the self-defense of the powerless.

Like many another romance, the romance of the family turns sour when the money runs out. If we really cared about families, we would not let 'born again' patriarchs send up moral abstractions as a smokescreen for the scandal of American family economics.

Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.

Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Compared to other parents, remarried parents seem more desirous of their child's approval, more alert to the child's emotional state, and more sensitive in their parent-child relations. Perhaps this is the result of heightened empathy for the child's suffering, perhaps it is a guilt reaction; in either case, it gives the child a potent weapon--the power to disrupt the new household and come between parent and the new spouse.