Families Today Quotes:

The choices that you make with your family today will determine the quality of life in your family tree for generations to come.

- Steve Farrar

source: Steve Farrar (2009). “Point Man: How a Man Can Lead His Family”, p.51, Multnomah

topic: Choices, Tree, Quality, Quality Of Life, Families Today

The family today counts for less and less. Why? Who knows - the growth of science, the Cold War, the atomic bomb, the world war we've made, the new philosophies we've created; certainly something is happening to man, so why go against it, why oblige this new man to live by the mechanisms and regulations of the past?

- Michelangelo Antonioni

source: Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

topic: Philosophy, War, Past, Families Today

Your basic extended family today includes your ex-husband or -wife, your ex's new mate, your new mate, possibly your new mate's ex and any new mate that your new mate's ex has acquired.

- Delia Ephron

topic: Husband, Wife, Today, Families Today, Ex Husband

The welfare state has done to Black Americans what slavery (and Jim Crow and racism) could not have done. . .break up the black family. Today, just slightly over 30 percent of black kids live in two-parent families. Historically, from the 1870s on. . . 75-90 percent of black kids lived in two-parent families.

- John Stossel

topic: Kids, Two, Racism, Families Today, Black Family

The point is that families today are spending their money no more foolishly than their parents did. And yet they're five times more likely to go bankrupt, and three times more likely to lose their homes. Families are going broke on the basics - housing, health insurance, and education. These are the kind of bills that you can't just trim around the edges in the event of a downturn.

- Amelia Warren Tyagi

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Home, Parent, Events, Families Today, Downturn

More and more families today are sending both parents into the workforce - t's become the norm, it's what we now expect. The overwhelming majority of us do it because we think it will make our families more secure. But that's not how things have worked out.

- Amelia Warren Tyagi

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Thinking, Parent, Majority, Families Today

What happens to children and families today who sit around the television? They're watching made-up stories. It's not their experience and it's not truly shared. A human being must learn at a very young age how to connect to other human beings. Our technologies are driving us apart, only connecting us in terms of information, not in terms of emotions.

- Rita Mae Brown

source: Rita Mae Brown (2009). “Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser”, p.138, Bantam

topic: Children, Technology, Made Up Stories, Families Today

One of the main problems in families today is that we spend less and less time together.... Time together is precious time-time needed to talk, to listen, to encourage, and to show how to do things.

- James E. Faust

topic: Together, Today, Problem, Time Together, Families Today

When I grew up, we didn't have a TV, and I think more families today have ambitions of getting out of their environment, such as sending their children to university.

- Robert Winston

topic: Children, Ambition, Thinking, Families Today

I see the friends I made over the years who have become family today, people I became acquainted with who have achieved so much in their lives. They taught me something with each meeting.

- Akshay Kumar

topic: Years, People, Today, Families Today

Growing up in the days when you still had to punch buttons to make a telephone call, I could recall the numbers of all my close friends and family. Today, I'm not sure if I know more than four phone numbers by heart. And that's probably more than most.

- Joshua Foer

topic: Growing Up, Heart, Numbers, Phone Numbers, Families Today