“The family is the basis of humanity and more must be done for the family.”

“A growing body of clinical observation has pointed to the conclusion that the family therapy must be oriented to the family as a whole.”

“Family is more than blood”

“The family unit is the incubator for human character; the state is the incubator for human dependency.”

“Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. Mothers are different. Mothers are darlings.”

“Nothing threatens a father’s involvement in the family more than his obligation to be the family’s “financial womb,” creating “The Father’s ‘Catch-22’”: loving the family by being away from the family. It is the irony of traditional fatherhood: being a father by not being a father.”

“No force is more powerful -- or more multiple -- than the family.”

“Prior to the Industrial Revolution, the daily life of most humans ran its course within three ancient frames: the nuclear family, the extended family and the local intimate community.* Most people worked in the family business – the family farm or the family workshop, for example – or they worked in their neighbours’ family businesses. The family was also the welfare system, the health system, the education system, the construction industry, the trade union, the pension fund, the insurance company, the radio, the television, the newspapers, the bank and even the police.”

“Dads in the family are even more important than women in the workplace: The workplace benefits from women, but the family needs dads.”

“The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting”