“I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes, or really violent ones. I went home to a very traditional, good Irish Catholic family.” HomeKidsGrewGrew UpCatholicViolentTraditionalLotteryParentalCatholic Family Author:Dennis Lehane
“Right now, we say in a traditional home one parent stays home with the children and the other provides the financial support for that family. That is the acceptable and right thing to do. If we begin to expand that, not only do we dilute the resources that are available, we begin to dilute things like health care, retirement, all the things offered to families that help them be a family.” IfsChildrenHelpingHomeCareParentSupportRight NowResourcesFinancialAvailableTraditionalHealth CareThings To DoRight ThingRetirementAcceptableFinancial Support Author:Sharron Angle
“For women to be supplying the soldiery with banners, flannel shirts and other material comforts was, superficially, all of a piece with their ministrations to their menfolk at home. Such contributions to the war effort were socially acceptable because they could be seen as an extension into the military sphere of the traditional female virtues of charity, nurture and needlework. Yet in reality what the women were doing represented the thin end of a far more radical wedge. Consciously or not, these female patriots were staking out a civic role for themselves. And many of them relished it.” WarEndsHomeRealityEffortRolesVirtuePiecesMilitaryMaterialsComfortFemaleCharityTraditionalRadicalShirtsContributionSpheresAcceptablePatriotNurtureExtensionsCivicsBannerBritish HistoryWedgesFlannelsNeedlework Author:Linda Colley
“the sudden violent dispossession accompanying a refugee flight is much more than the loss of a permanent home and a traditional occupation, or than the parting from close friends and familiar places. It is also the death of the person one has become in a particular context, and every refugee must be his or her own midwife at the painful process of rebirth.” PersonsHomeProcessLossParticularPainfulViolentFamiliarTraditionalFlightPermanentOccupationRefugeeRebirthPartingClose FriendsMidwifeFamiliar Places Author:Dervla Murphy
“Though it is fairly easy to describe what constitutes a bad home, there is no simple definition of a good one. Conformity with the traditional pattern certainly is no guarantee of the happiest results.” HomeEasySimpleResultsFamilyPatternsDefinitionsTraditionalGuaranteesConformity Book:Women's Two Roles: Home and Work Source: Women's Two Roles: Home and Work
“I think it can be hard for any man to sometimes be upstaged by his wife. So when I'm home, I work very hard to be Todd's wife and Jade's mother. I have no problem going back to those traditional roles. I try to be Giada, the young girl that he met 20 years ago and fell in love with.” ThinkingMenTryingYearsSometimesHardProblemHomeYoungMotherGirlRolesWifeMetsYears AgoTraditionalNo ProblemJade Author:Giada De Laurentiis