“Today, what most people live in, or with, is the less-than-nuclear family. Working fathers are absent from home during most of the day, the children are schooled outside it, and practically all women who work for money must go outside to earn their living.” PeopleChildrenHomeTodayFatherFamilyNuclearAbsentSchooledNuclear Families Author:Elizabeth Janeway
“My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family of three above the poverty line. Not today. Not even close. I understood right then that people can work hard, they can play by the rules, and they can still take a hard smack.” PeopleStillsHardPlayHomeRealityTodayJobsMotherThreePoliticsLinesWorkJusticeMoneyFamilyPovertyHistorySupportGenerationsPolicyHard WorkEthicsUnderstoodHuman RightsSavedIdeologyMinimum1960sCivilityMinimum WageSmackFood Stamps Author:Elizabeth Warren
“I think there are still words you can't use in family entertainment that you can use in a sitcom today.” ThinkingStillsUseTodayFamilyEntertainmentSitcom Author:Bob Newhart
“It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.” InspirationalTodaySocialHoursFamilyClassPlansWeekMiddleSecurityMovementBearsLaborUnionsSecureGrantedLabelsMiddle ClassRetirementMinimumSocial SecurityMedicareMinimum WageCornerstonesLabor UnionLabor MovementMiddle Class FamilyPersonal LeadershipWork Week Author:Barack Obama
“I think the world today is upside down, and is suffering so much, because there is so very little love in the homes and in family life.” ThinkingWorldLittlesHomeTodaySufferingFamilyDown AndFamily LifeWorld TodayUpside DownLittle Love Book:Mother Teresa: Essential Writings Source: Mother Teresa: Essential Writings
“Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important.” ImportantTodayFamilyOur LivesRocksModelsRole ModelsBeing A FatherBeing A Role Model Author:Barack Obama
“I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family. I'll be around a long time. A thousand years from now, a whole township of my offspring will be biting sour apples in the gumwood shade.” YearsPersonsLongWholeTodayFamilyDyingThousandLong TimeDiedApplesShadeThousand YearsOffspringSourBiting Book:The Stories of Ray Bradbury Source: The Stories of Ray Bradbury
“I don't think any change in the world has been more significant than the change in the status of women. . . . A woman's world was her home, her family, and perhaps a little community service. Today, a woman's world is as broad as the universe.” ThinkingWorldLittlesHas BeensHomeTodayUniverseCommunityFamilySignificantBroadsCommunity Service Author:Belle S. Spafford
“Today, I would like you to pause, ponder, and think of the value of an immortal soul, especially the ones entrusted to you as parents. Where are your priorities? Have you committed yourself to give the sufficient time necessary to train your children?” ThinkingGivingChildrenSoulTodayValuesParentFamilyLike YouOur ChildrenTrainCommittedPrioritiesYour ChildrenSufficientImmortalPausesPonderingImmortal Soul Author:L. Tom Perry
“For me to sit here and give all kinds of excuses to make it right, I can't do. But what I want to ask everyone out there, everyone that has a child, everyone that has a brother, a sister: if your child or family member was abducted today, if a mad man came in, a terrorist came in, abducted your family member or your child and if I said to you I can bring your child home...does it matter how I bring them home?” IfsMenWayWantGivingKindChildrenDoeSaidI CanMatterHomeTodayAsksFamilyCrimeBrotherMembersOur ChildrenMadExcuseCriminalsTerroristAll KindsOur FamilyYour ChildrenSisterFamily MembersOutlawKidnappingMad MenBikersDoes It MatterKidnappedAbduction Author:Sam Childers