Stephanie Coontz Quotes (11 Quotes)

The worst problems for children stem from parental conflict, before, during, and after divorce or within marriage.

Marriage, A History From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage.

This generation has a more friendly relationship with their parents than previous generations. The kids, when they move back, have fewer rules, no curfew and fewer hassles about their sex lives.

The only thing that can replace (the emptiness) is a new sense of community. It's more than the sum of the individual losses.

You have to make a family where you can find it.

There is still an expectation that men have to know what their wives are doing and have to control them,

Nostalgia wouldn't begin to capture your sense of loss, ... The Way We Really Are Coming to Terms With America's Changing Families.

This is a new phenomenon not the mercenary quality, but the fact that people are willing to risk this kind of money, just to say they're married. Love has been so idealized that at the top, the rich are willing to throw good money after bad to see if they can get the magic ring.

A significant minority of senior women I've interviewed say, 'Love the companionship, glad to live with him, but I spent my first marriage picking up after a man and I'm not going to do that anymore.

Life is filled with trade-offs, and I worry that it's so easy to slip from descriptions of problems to one-size-fits-all prescription,

Even 25 years ago, most people were reliant on their friends to fix them up. People in their 40s and 50s don't want to be hanging out at bars. Now they have access to this incredible pool of single people their age.