215 Quotes by Stephanie Coontz

Investing in living-wage jobs and reducing the inequities between local school districts would give young people more, not less, incentive to postpone childbearing and more possibilities for independence.

Heterosexuals were the upstarts who turned marriage into a voluntary love relationship rather than a mandatory economic and political institution.

Having more education is one of the biggest predictors of women having careers.

To my mind, it is better to have regrets about the good aspects of your former marriage because you were able to work past some of your accumulated resentments than to have no regrets because you had to ratchet up the hostility to get out in the first place.

Educated parents find more time to spend with their children by reducing time dedicated to home-based activities that involve little interaction with children.

The closer we get to achieving equality of opportunity between the sexes, the more clearly we can see that the next major obstacle to improving the well-being of most men and women is the growing socioeconomic inequality within each sex.

No single choice about how to organize work and family life is right or possible - for every family. And every choice has tradeoffs.

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

Indeed, the spread of 'virtual' communities on the Internet speaks to a deep hunger to reach out to others.