While there are practical and sometimes moral reasons for the decomposition of the family, it coincides neither with what most people in society say they desire nor, especially in the case of children, with their best interests.

Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.

However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leavi…

The family is in flux, and signs of trouble are widespread. Expectations remain high. But realities are disturbing.

'The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it.'

All political arrangements, in that they have to bring a variety of widely-discordant interests into unity and harmony, necessarily occasion manifold collision…

Children do not really need money. After all, they don't have to pay rent or send mailgrams.