Boy meets girl. Boy marries girl. Boy and girl angst over which family they visit at Thanksgiving and which one in December and whether or not it's b…

- Marge M. Kennedy

Too-broad questions, such as, "What's on your mind?" are apt to be answered "nothing" nearly one hundred percent of the time. Be careful of slipping …

- Marge M. Kennedy

[Our family is] a wonderfully messy arrangement, in which relationships overlap, underlie, support, and oppose one another. It didn't always come tog…

- Marge M. Kennedy

We've all got to remember to pick our battles carefully, to be prepared to lose small ones, and to hold out for big ones.

- Marge M. Kennedy

One of the silliest lines ever said in a feature film came from Love Story, the 1970s hit, which immortalized the phrase, "Love means never having to…

- Marge M. Kennedy

Single parents in particular may have trouble maintaining themselves as authority figures because of underlying guilt; they feel acontinuing sense th…

- Marge M. Kennedy

Hard though it may be to accept, remember that guilt is sometimes a friendly internal voice reminding you that you're messing up.

- Marge M. Kennedy

Our kids are not here to comfort us, to entertain us, or to validate us. Those things need to come from ourselves and from other adults.

- Marge M. Kennedy

No matter how children came to be living with just one parent, they need to be told, again and again, that your family's configuration is the result …

- Marge M. Kennedy