A family stitched together with love seldom unravels.

Mothers remember a child's first words, and quote them in tones usually reserved for Byron.

I want to visit Memory Lane, I don't want to live there.

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.

If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.

Before devising any blueprint that includes the assumption of Having It All, we need to ask ... Why do we need Everything?

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.