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In personal life, the warm glow of nostalgia amplifies good memories and minimizes bad ones about experiences and relationships, encouraging us to revisit and renew our ties with friends and family. It always involves a little harmless self-deception, like forgetting the pain of childbirth.

~Stephanie Coontz

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Labeling people single parents, for example, when they may in fact be co-parenting - either with an unmarried other parent in the home or with an ex-spouse in a joint custody situation - stigmatizes their children as the products of 'single parenthood' and makes the uncounted parent invisible to society.

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Contrary to the fears of some pundits, the ascent of women does not portend the end of men. It offers a new beginning for both. But women's progress by itself is not a panacea for America's inequities.

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The growing diversity of family life comes with new possibilities as well as new challenges.

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It's always seductive to know where one stands in relation to the average.

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There is no denying that we have made great progress toward gender equality.

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The origins of modern marital instability lie largely in the triumph of what many people believe to be marriage's traditional role - providing love, intimacy, fidelity, and mutual fulfillment. The truth is that for centuries, marriage was stable precisely because it was not expected to provide such benefits.

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The real gender inequality in marriage stems from the tendency to regard women as the default parent, the one who, in the absence of family-friendly work policies, is expected to adjust her paid work to shoulder the brunt of domestic responsibilities.

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Marriage is no longer the main way in which societies regulate sexuality and parenting or organize the division of labor between men and women.

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When you can't change what's bothering you, one typical response is to convince yourself that it doesn't actually bother you.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: August 31st, 1944

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