Family
Peter Barrett was the husband of Laurie Barrett (now a retired accountant) and father of three children, Kevin Barrett, Bruce Barrett, and Tara Barrett who are now adults. His most well known son, Dr. Bruce Barrett, is an associate professor at the University Of Wisconsin and the author of several published studies on healthcare, including a 2012 paper on how meditation and exercise can reduce the incidence, duration and severity of colds and the flu by about 30 percent to 60 percent.
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Famous quotes containing the word family:
“Every family has one passage of scripture they stumble over.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described—and will be, after our deaths—by each of the family members who believe they know us.”
—Gloria Steinem (b. 1934)
“The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.”
—C. Wright Mills (1916–1962)