Consider Social Security. The young have always contributed to the support of the old. Earlier, the young helped their own parents out of a sense of love and duty. They now contribute to the support of someone else's parents out of compulsion and fear. The voluntary transfers strengthened the bonds of the family; the compulsory transfers weaken those bonds.
For us, it wasn't important to have a big house, a few cars, always have the newest clothes. Solidarity as a family was important. We were there for each other and always will be.
The family is the corner stone of our society.
But no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters.
You can have terrible things happen in your family. A husband and wife can be having a knock-down, drag-out fight and the minute one of the kids gets hurt, the fight is over and it's about the family.
My whole family is really tight-knit. We're a really good team.
I don't hesitate to say if every family in the world practiced [family home evening], you'd see a very great difference in the solidarity of the families of the world.
One way in which all of us can help to combat the current wave of public indecency which threatens to undermine Western civilization is to concentrate upon and increase the solidarity of the family. This solidarity begins with a child at the mother's breast.
Texas governor Rick Perry's wife, Anita, has come out slugging in her glittering leopard-print jacket against what she sees as the unfair treatment of her husband. She tearfully said that he has been 'brutalized' for his faith.
I think the idea of family and protecting the family is something that ties a lot of these women together.
A family ... is a little kingdom, torn with factions and exposed to revolutions.
Mama always said a good family has one heartbeat. No one knows you like the people you live with, and no one will take up your cause to the outside world quite like your blood relatives.
When you have a voice and a platform and you know better, it becomes your moral obligation to support that community. And by extension, you're supporting your family.
If there is something that needs to be done on my behalf back home, for example, my brothers take care of it for me. I share everything with my family; all my happiness and success is theirs.
I support everything every single person in my family does and vice versa.
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.
Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.
The family is more sacred than the state.
I believe that whatever your religious preference, there has to be a commitment to family because everything really does start there.
And I think that that emphasis on keeping a family together, alike, I think it's important.
A family unity which is only bound together with a table-cloth is of questionable value.
It means so much to me that my family went against our tradition for me.
The whole family is tight. We all really love each other.
Proper communication will always be a main ingredient for building family solidarity and permanence.
The family is the greatest treasure of any country. Let us all work to protect and strengthen this, the cornerstone of society.
