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

The risk for a woman who considers her helpless children her "job" is that the children's growth toward self-sufficiency may be experienced as a refutation of the mother's indispensability, and she may unconsciously sabotage their growth as a result.

Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.

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

A toy has no gender and no idea of whether a girl or boy is playing with it.

If the Richter scale could measure human calamities, the loss of a child would register a ten.

When a family is free of abuse and oppression, it can be the place where we share our deepest secrets and stand the most exposed, a place where we learn to feel distinct without being better, - and sacrifice for others without losing ourselves.