Nuclear Families

Famous quotes containing the words nuclear families, nuclear and/or families:

    We now recognize that abuse and neglect may be as frequent in nuclear families as love, protection, and commitment are in nonnuclear families.
    David Elkind (20th century)

    The problems of the world, AIDS, cancer, nuclear war, pollution, are, finally, no more solvable than the problem of a tree which has borne fruit: the apples are overripe and they are falling—what can be done?... Nothing can be done, and nothing needs to be done. Something is being done—the organism is preparing to rest.
    David Mamet (b. 1947)

    Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.
    Stella Benson (1892–1933)