There is no going back to a time when most women will feel compelled to enter or stay in a bad marriage just for economic security or social respectability. So today, the best way to get women once more interested in getting married and having children is for men to accept women's new insistence on equality. This is, I think, why educated women in America, are now more pro - marriage and more disapproving of divorce than other groups of women who have less experience with egalitarian partners or less clout in getting their needs met in relationships.
For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish ora German girl scrub… - Stephanie Coontz
For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish ora German girl scrub…
- Stephanie Coontz
Extended families have never been the norm in America; the highest figure for extended-family households ever recorded in Americanhistory is 20 perce… - Stephanie Coontz
Extended families have never been the norm in America; the highest figure for extended-family households ever recorded in Americanhistory is 20 perce…
The benefits of feminism have been unequally distributed, because the move toward gender equality and gender neutrality has been countered to a large… - Stephanie Coontz
The benefits of feminism have been unequally distributed, because the move toward gender equality and gender neutrality has been countered to a large…
I think that divorce is a vital escape hatch for people stuck in marriage and it is not a sentence of doom either for adults or children. The communi… - Stephanie Coontz
I think that divorce is a vital escape hatch for people stuck in marriage and it is not a sentence of doom either for adults or children. The communi…
We urgently need a debate about the best ways of supporting families in modern America, without blinders that prevent us from seeing the full extent … - Stephanie Coontz
We urgently need a debate about the best ways of supporting families in modern America, without blinders that prevent us from seeing the full extent …
Nostalgia wouldn't begin to capture your sense of loss, ... The Way We Really Are Coming to Terms With America's Changing Families. - Stephanie Coontz
Nostalgia wouldn't begin to capture your sense of loss, ... The Way We Really Are Coming to Terms With America's Changing Families.
Contrary to popular opinion, 'Leave it to Beaver' was not a documentary. - Stephanie Coontz
Contrary to popular opinion, 'Leave it to Beaver' was not a documentary.
A two-parent family based on love and commitment can be a wonderful thing, but historically speaking the "two-parent paradigm" has left an extraordin… - Stephanie Coontz
A two-parent family based on love and commitment can be a wonderful thing, but historically speaking the "two-parent paradigm" has left an extraordin…
Singlehood is not longer a state to be overcome as soon as possible. It has its own rewards. Marriage is not the gateway to adulthood anymore. For mo… - Stephanie Coontz
Singlehood is not longer a state to be overcome as soon as possible. It has its own rewards. Marriage is not the gateway to adulthood anymore. For mo…
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