“Two parents can't raise a child any more than one. You need a whole community - everybody - to raise a child. And the little nuclear family is a paradigm that just doesn't work. It doesn't work for white people or for black people. Why are we hanging onto it, I don't know. It isolates people into little units - people need a larger unit.” PeopleKnowsNeedsChildrenLittlesTwoWholeParentBlackCommunityWhiteFamilyRaisesNuclearWorking ItBlack PeopleUnitsParadigmNuclear Families Book:Conversations with Toni Morrison Source: Conversations with Toni Morrison
“I doubt whether there is any subject in the world of equal importance that has received so little serious and articulate consideration as the economic status of the family - of its members in relation to each other and of the whole unit in relation to the other units of which the community is made up.” WorldLittlesMadeWholeCommunityFamilyDoubtEconomicSubjectsSeriousEqualMembersEconomicsImportanceRelationConsiderationUnitsEconomic Status Author:Eleanor Rathbone
“Twenty thousand years ago the family was the social unit. Now the social unit has become the world, in which it may truthfully be said that each person's welfare affects that of every other.” WorldYearsMayPersonsSaidSocialFamilyThousandYears AgoTwentiesWelfareThousand YearsUnits Author:Arthur Compton
“The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.” PeopleIfsWorldNeedsFeelsBelieveChildrenPersonsSaidTwoEnoughAgeYoungMotherFatherI BelieveParentBornFamilyBreakSecurityEmotionalMy FamilyMereDuesVarietyOur FamilyIsolationUnitsTemperamentAbout FamilyLarge FamilyFamily ReunionFunny Family ReunionFamily UnitFamily BondKinfolk Author:Pearl S. Buck
“The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.” PlayWomenFamilyRolesGenerationsTrainingFeministCriticalEmpoweringOur SocietyUnitsFamily Unit Author:Sandra Day O'Connor
“The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.” FirstsPersonsHomeGovernmentValuesCommunityFamilyAuthorityUnitsFamily ValuesLarge Family Author:Charles Caleb Colton
“Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.” ChildrenMotherFatherSocialSpaceFamilyConcernedMy FamilyUnitsClosetsFamily LoveParkingOuter SpaceAbout FamilyInspirational Family LoveInspirational FamilyFamily ReunionFunny FamilyLovely FamilyFunny Family ReunionBeautiful FamilyLove Life And FamilyFamily UnitParking SpaceLoving Your FamilyClose FamilyCute Family Author:Evan Esar
“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.” WayChildrenLittlesHomeGovernmentSchoolIndividualViewsFamilyFeetHealthyInstitutionsFoundationLoyaltyVulnerableDependentOur SocietyStableUnitsLarge FamilyHealthy MarriageFamily Unit Author:James Dobson
“Feelings of right and wrong that at first have their locus within the family gradually develop into a pattern for the tribe or city, then spread to the much larger unit of the nation, and finally from the nation to mankind as a whole.” FirstsWholeFeelingsNationsCitiesFamilyMankindPatternsSpreadUnitsTribes Author:Corliss Lamont
“The family unit is the most important organization in time or in eternity.” ImportantFamilyOrganizationEternityUnitsFamily Unit Author:Bruce R. McConkie
“When you have a godly husband, a godly wife, children who respect their parents and who are loved by their parents, who provide for those children their physical and spiritual and material needs, lovingly, you have the ideal unit.” NeedsChildrenSpiritualParentFamilyWifeMaterialsHusbandIdealsUnitsGodlyHappy ChildrenLoving My Family Author:Jerry Falwell