Christopher Lasch Quotes

It's really important to recognize that family life in America has changed pretty dramatically.

Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.

Those days of every child having a mummy and daddy who lived at home - Daddy went to work, and Mummy stayed at home and took care of everyone - those days have almost gone, and it's so much more unconventional now.

Some may look on my work as being corny or old hat and wonder if my observations on the typical family are passe, what with the single-parent family and mixed family units.

The concept of 'family' has changed so much. It's not just 'mom and dad' anymore. It's 'mom and mom' and 'dad and dad,' and it's kind of beautiful.

An ordinary life used to look something like this: born into a growing family, you help rear your siblings, have the first of your own half-dozen or even dozen children soon after you're grown, and die before your youngest has left home.

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

I don't design houses with the nuclear family idea because I don't believe in it as a concept.

I was an only child, but then my parents resettled with different partners, and I am now one of six.

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

We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.

The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.

Marriage has been undermined by divorce ... Don't blame the gay and lesbian, transgender and transsexual community.

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

As far back as our knowledge takes us, human beings have lived in families. We know of no period when this was not so. We know of no people who have succeeded for long in dissolving the family or displacing it.

The idea that there is a family somewhere who functions is an odd concept.

I was one of six kids; my grandmother lived with us. We had an aunt who used to have nerves, and all her kids would turn up and live with us.

While growing up, I lived in a traditional joint family in Mumbai's suburbs.

I have a daughter and a family.

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

We're fortunate in my family because we really have three families: my brother, David, and me; the two boys, Cooper and Marston, from my dad's second marriage; and my dad's wife, Crystal.

My wife Jenny and I have four young children of our own.

I married my high school sweetheart, and I do have two kids.

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

Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.