Margaret Mead Quotes

Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.

Families need families. Parents need to be parented. Grandparents, aunts, and uncles are back in fashion because they are necessary. Stresses on many families are out of proportion to anything two parents can handle.

My mother has a very big family in Shanghai, so I have, like, almost 40 cousins, so we stayed together all the time. So by the time I get to Hong Kong, I become the only child and the only one surrounded by adults, you know.

The mother-in-law is the centre of a family.

In most places and times in human history, babies have had not just one person but lots of people around who were really paying attention to them around, dedicated to them, cared to them, were related to them. I think the big shift in our culture is the isolation in which many children are growing up.

The father-mother family with two children isolated in a city flat is already insufficient.

I'm an only child, and so I over-rely on my friends to lend their support.

There are five members in my family.

I have a large family with lots of little kids.

As the Japanese family gets more and more atomized, grandparents don't live with the nuclear family, so parents of children can't consult with their own parents about how to raise their children and rely on that to help raise them.

The family is not only a living arrangement. It has always been a symbol of survival.

I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.

Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.

As far back as our knowledge takes us, human beings have lived in families. We know of no period when this was not so. We know of no people who have succeeded for long in dissolving the family or displacing it.

I'm the youngest of six children; both of my sisters are housewives and they each have four kids.

I remember that I used to mix with my friends who had brothers and sisters. I was an only child.

The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.

I'm from a big family. I've got 10 nieces and nephews.

Those days of every child having a mummy and daddy who lived at home - Daddy went to work, and Mummy stayed at home and took care of everyone - those days have almost gone, and it's so much more unconventional now.

A “good” family, it seems, is one that used to be better.

Loneliness is not a problem in traditional societies. People spend their lives in or near the place where they were born, and they remain surrounded by relatives and childhood companions.

We are redefining the concept of marriage to say that fathers are optional.

No government should ever be big enough to substitute for the family.

We're fortunate in my family because we really have three families: my brother, David, and me; the two boys, Cooper and Marston, from my dad's second marriage; and my dad's wife, Crystal.