Children born of married parents in America face a higher risk of seeing them break up than children born of unmarried parents in Sweden.

Each marriage bears the footprints of economic and cultural trends which originate far outside marriage.

Most women work one shift at the office or factory and a 'second shift' at home.

Many of the young aspire to happy marriages and dot-com fortunes but end up in guarded love and okay-for-now jobs.

Many working families are both prisoners and architects of the time bind in which they find themselves.

And the Republican Party especially associates the market with the idea of progress, goodness, family, and points us toward the mall as an answer to all our personal dreams.

Here is a new car, a new iPhone. We buy. We discard. We buy again. In recent years, we've been doing it faster.

The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have called 'advanced insecurity.

Compared with the employed, the jobless are less likely to vote, volunteer, see friends and talk to family. Even on weekends, the jobless spend more time alone than those with jobs.

To televisionize any serious problem, the program directors face the task of making the message 'go down smooth' until the audience is delivered to the commercial.

When Hope disappears ~ Faith steps in...

Don't matter if you believe in them or not. If they're there, they're there, ' Mrs. Phipps said.

Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.

Man by nature wants to know.

Love is when you can completely trust one another, you feel like you can conquer the world together, you know that person will be there for you, and most importantly, you make each other laugh.

But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood.

A successful life depends less on how long you live than on how much you can pack into the time you have.

I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be.

I am almost certain that space and time are illusions. These are primitive notions that will be replaced by something more sophisticated.