He that raises a large family, does indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand…a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. 

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

Family! Thou art the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

Men are what their mothers made them.

Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know. 

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.  

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.