No revolution creates a wholly new universe. Rather, it reflects the history and culture that spawned it.

We are a society that values a man for what he does in the world, a woman for how she looks.

For those who have lived on the edge of poverty all their lives, the semblance of poverty affected by the affluent is both incomprehensible and insulting.

Personal change, growth, development, identity formation--these tasks that once were thought to belong to childhood and adolescence alone now are recognized as part of adult life as well. Gone is the belief that adulthood is, or ought to be, a time of internal peace and comfort, that growing pains belong only to the young; gone the belief that these are marker events--a job, a mate, a child--through which we will pass into a life of relative ease.

Whatever else we may say about sex, it is at least as much a social and psychological phenomenon as it is a biological one.

Sexual freedom is about choice. It's the freedom to say no as well as yes.

In fact, the family as an institution is both oppressive and protective and, depending on the issue, is experienced sometimes one way, sometimes the other - often in some mix of the two - by most people who live in families.