"intimacy, love and trust where individuals may escape the competition of dehumanizing forces in modern society."; "[t]he family as a repository of warmth and tenderness (embodied by the mother) stands in opposition to the competitive and aggressive world of commerce (embodied by the father). The family's task was to protect against the outside world." - Zinn and Eitzen (1987) Diversity in American families, s. 3
"The protective image of the family has waned in recent years as the ideals of family fulfillment have taken shape. Today, the family is more compensatory than protective. It supplies what is vitally needed but missing in other social arrangements." - Zinn and Eitzen (1987) Diversity in American families, s. 3
"there is no golden age of the family gleaming at us in the far back historical past." - Zinn and Eitzen (1987) Diversity in American families, s. 8
"Desertion by spouses, illegitimate children, and other conditions that are considered characteristics of modern times existed in the past as well." - Zinn and Eitzen (1987) Diversity in American families, s. 8
