The most important difference between these early American families and our own is that early families constituted economic unitsin which all members…

- Kenneth Keniston

We measure the success of schools not by the kinds of human beings they promote but by whatever increases in reading scores they chalk up. We have al…

- Kenneth Keniston

The myth of the self-sufficient individual and of the self-sufficient, protected, and protective familytells us that those who need help are ultimate…

- Kenneth Keniston

Recognizing that family self-sufficiency is a false myth, we also need to acknowledge that all today's families need help in raising children. The pr…

- Kenneth Keniston

Today's parents have little authority over those others with whom they share the task of raising their children. On the contrary,most parents deal wi…

- Kenneth Keniston

It is misleading to discuss recent changes in family life without emphasizing the fact that for generations some Americans have had to raise children…

- Kenneth Keniston

Poor children live in a particularly dangerous world--an urban world of broken stair railings, of busy streets serving as playgrounds, of lead paint,…

- Kenneth Keniston

In the early nineteenth century, the doctrine of self-sufficiency came to apply to families as well as individuals.... The familybecame a special pro…

- Kenneth Keniston

In the end, the fate of children depends on our ability to use technology constructively and carefully. The connection of childrenand technology is n…

- Kenneth Keniston