Alvin Toffler Quotes

Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose mother 'worked' at anything besides raising her children.

The concept of the strong linkage to the family is breaking down in Western nations.

Today the family is being attacked and defended with equal vehemence.

In my kids' school, the married family is an anomaly... which I do think is sad. I do believe in marriage.

We are redefining the concept of marriage to say that fathers are optional.

"Family" this and "family" that. If I had a family I'd be furious that moral busybodies are taking the perfectly good word family and using it as a code for censorship the same way "states' rights" was used to disguise racism in the mid-sixties.

The traditional family has an intrinsic as well as an instrumental value, and that is the real reason so many conservatives defend it.

There are five members in my family.

My household runs the same way it was with my parents, who were a mother and father with their kids.

The family is not only a living arrangement. It has always been a symbol of survival.

I've always been progressive on social issues: pro-choice, pro-gun control, and pro-gay rights - even when I was a Republican. The big difference is that I once believed the private sector would address America's social problems. But then I saw firsthand that this wasn't going to happen.

That is not a crack house. It is a house with a family with a father and a mother and three sons and a daughter.

I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society.

The family remains the basic unit of society and the first school in which children learn the human, spiritual and moral values which enable them to be a beacon of goodness, integrity and justice in our communities.

The single factor most responsible for the disruption of the family is the automobile. Its full effect cannot be assessed. Modern life, as we know, would be impossible without the ubiquitous motorcar. It broke up the old family and community.

The family has always been the cornerstone of American society. Our families nurture, preserve, and pass on to each succeeding generation the values we share and cherish, values that are the foundation of our freedoms.

Today, what most people live in, or with, is the less-than-nuclear family. Working fathers are absent from home during most of the day, the children are schooled outside it, and practically all women who work for money must go outside to earn their living.

When you hear all these things about homosexual marriage, this has nothing to do with homosexual rights. The whole objective is the destruction of the traditional family. It has nothing to do with homosexuals.

If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.

Religion is so focused on family. These days, for many people, being gay is also focused on family.

I have heard earnest American sociologists say that American children have a right to the divorce experience as an enriching element of an advanced civilisation.

I can't think of anything worse than being brought up by two gay dads.

Anybody who tries to change society without examining the family is trying to push a shadow without moving a statue.

The family is the corner stone of our society.

The Family is the salt of the earth and the light of the world, it is the leaven of society.