Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put us in an impossible situation.
Margaret Mead (1901-1978) Anthropologist
'Divorce is when mommy and daddy yell at each other then they spread apart. Then they put up a 'for sale' sign in front of the house and they spread farther and farther apart until they can't come back ever again and it's very sad.' (teaching her 4-year old brother)
Emily McClelland (at age 7)
“This is our house. And this is America Online.” (While pointing at a map of the North American continent.)
Emily McClelland (1998- )
'Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.'
Matt Groening, Creator of the Simpsons (1954-)
Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) American Theologian, Historian
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