The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.

The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.

The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.

The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.

A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

For me, nothing has ever taken precedence over being a mother and having a family and a home.

I am tortured when I am away from my family, from my children. I am horribly guilt-ridden.

We would be doing the children of South Asia a great disservice if we allowed ourselves to believe that the need of children to belong to a loving, permanent family was washed away by the waves of the tsunami.

I believe in God, family, truth between people, the power of love.

I need family support close because when you go to work, they are long days and it can get lonely.

If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don't think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; it is amazing how quickly you get through those 5,000 steps.