American families have always shown remarkable resiliency, or flexible adjustment to natural, economic, and social challenges. Their strengths resemble the elasticity of a spider web, a gull's skillful flow with the wind, the regenerating power of perennial grasses, the cooperation…

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Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers

I grew up to have my father's looks- my father's speech patterns-my father's posture- my...

I grew up to have my father's looks- my father's speech patterns-my father's posture- my...

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a...

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a...

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each...

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each...

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like...

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like...

Government, obviously, cannot fill a child's emotional needs. Nor can it fill his spiritual and...

Government, obviously, cannot fill a child's emotional needs. Nor can it fill his spiritual and...

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the...

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the...

There are many stressed single parents who may be working two jobs in order to...

There are many stressed single parents who may be working two jobs in order to...

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is...

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is...

An angry father is most cruel towards himself.

An angry father is most cruel towards himself.

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect...

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect...

The great gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might...

The great gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might...

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works,...

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works,...

So you think you might have found that someone special that you've been waiting for....

So you think you might have found that someone special that you've been waiting for....

Writers will happen in the best of families.

Writers will happen in the best of families.

The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family...

The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family...