It wasn't until the 1920s that a bare majority of children grew up in families where the father's labor purchased the family's provisions, while their mother did unpaid child care, elder care, and hou...
The Lord gives a good many things twice over, but he don't give ye a mother but once.
Some secret of nurture withered a generation or two before I arrived, if it had ever existed before among the poor, marginalized people on the edges of Europe from whom I descend. Both my parents grew...
Substitute the word gay for straight and she's the exact same pain in the neck kid sister she was before she told us.
The greatest crime ever created is caring and loving.
Can I sleep with you? asked Oz. Kinda scary in my room. Pretty sure I saw a troll in the corner. Lou said, Get up here. Oz climbed next to her. Oz suddenly looked troubled. When you get married, who a...
To a child love is spelled T-I-M-E.
The family is the basis of society. As the family is, so is the society, and it is human beings who make a family-not the quantity of them, but the quality of them.
A successful father is not more successful than his children.
Is that what love is all about? Needing them to come back to you when they're away? To come home and keep you safe?
Myriam and I are both hard workers, and together we make a strong team. We found ways to make a living, educate our children, and to take care of my parents until their last days, and we managed to ha...
You don't turn your back on family, even when they do.
Rose leaned against the bathroom door. Here it was — her real life, the truth of who she was, barreling down on her like a bus with bad brakes. Here was the truth — she wasn’t the kind of person Jim c...
I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.
It was about having a box in the attic or basement or attic or garage, something we could return to over and over again, something that said, this is us, this is where we were last year, and this is w...
It could not have been easy for Mother, an only child, to grow up without a father and with a mother who was remote. Photos of her as a child show her extremely dressed up --Cornie's beautiful little...
We the caregivers, have the power to do things proactively to benefit our present and future generations.
When you love someone, show them in words AND deeds. To hear you're loved is nice but to feel loved is incredible.
Keep one thing in your mind; your school & friends can never teach you properly ,"how to be a good husband & father.
She pictured a dandelion gone by, the white, almost airless pieces of her family scattered so far.