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“Fortunately the family is a human institution: humans made it and humans can change it.”

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Author:Shere Hite

“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.”

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Author:Lillian B. Rubin

“Break up the institution of the family, deny the inviolability of its relations, and in a little while there would not be any humanity.”

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Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“In brief, we have no explicit family policy but instead have a haphazard patchwork of institutions and programs designed mostly under crisis conditions, whether the crisis is national in scope (such as a recession ) or personal (such as a break-up of a particular family).”

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Book:All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

“Did you know that the institution of marriage was created when the average person lived to the age of 30?”

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Author:Rachel Bilson

“The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.”

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Author:Paul Johnson

“The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.”

“The most important Christian Education institution is not the pulpit or the school, important as those institutions are; but it is the Christian family. And that institution has to a very large extent ceased to do its work.”

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Author:John Gresham Machen

“I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.”

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Author:Amos Oz

“We are special because we've been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We're bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have.”

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Author:Marco Rubio

“Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.”

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Author:August Strindberg

“It is my view that our society can be no more stable than the foundation of individual family units upon which it rests. Our government, our institutions, our schools...indeed, our way of life are dependent on healthy marriages and loyalty to the vulnerable little children around our feet.”

“The selection process has been powerful enough to produce one indisputable outcome: the family is a universal human institution. . . . In virtually every society into which historians or anthropologists have inquired, one finds people living together on the basis of kinship ties and having responsibility for raising children. . . . Even in societies where men and women have relatively unrestricted sexual access to one another beginning at an early age, marriage is still the basis for family formation. It is desired by the partners and expected by society.”