“When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating.”
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“It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.”
“Historically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.”
“Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.”
“There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.”
“Let your family, staff, and friends know that you're still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.”
“I come from a family of very devout, praying people. That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.”
“I am not generous about telling people who I am and what I like to do because it's my life and it only belongs to me and my friends and family.”
“I am healthy, my family is healthy. That is the important thing. After that we go racing.”
“I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.”
“Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next.”
“Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.”
“I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss.”
“For the Nugent family, fast food is a running herbivore.”
“But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!”
“I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.”
“And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home.”
“Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.”
“My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.”
“People under the influence of cults is similar to that we observe in addicts. Typical behaviour for both includes draining bank accounts, neglecting children, destroying relations with family and losing interest in anything except the drug or cult.”
“The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.”
“My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich people. Then I reminded them, 'Hey, I'm rich'.”
“There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.”
“I'm healthy, have a loving and adorable family, great hunting dogs, a gravity defying musical career and most importantly, fuzzy-headed idiots hate me.”