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

Stephanie Coontz

 Children

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.

Stephanie Coontz

 Love

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

Stephanie Coontz

 Control

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

Stephanie Coontz

 

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

Stephanie Coontz

 Community

The depth and influence of the radicalism of the late 1960s and early 1970s are often exaggerated.

Stephanie Coontz

 Influence

We need to get that back.

Stephanie Coontz

 

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,

Stephanie Coontz

 Life

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.

Stephanie Coontz

 People

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

Stephanie Coontz