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

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

Much is made of the accelerating brutality of young people's crimes, but rarely does our concern for dangerous children translateinto concern for children in danger. We fail to make the connection between the use of force on children themselves, and violent antisocial behavior, or the connection between watching father batter mother and the child deducing a link between violence and masculinity.

If knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged.

In the supposedly enlightened eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, parental indifference, child neglect, and raw cruelty appearedamong Europeans of all classes.... In mid-nineteenth- century France, families abandoned their children at the rate of thirty-three thousand a year.... It took sixty years after the criminalization of cruelty to animals for cruelty to children to be made punishable under English law.... Industrialized America added brutalizing child labor to the oppressions of the young.

If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.

Friends seem to be like aspirin; we don't really know why they make a sick person feel better, but they do.