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Stephanie Coontz

American Author

Born: Aug 31, 1944

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Valentine's Day is a perfect time to reject the idea that the ideal man is taller, richer, more knowledgeable, more renowned, or more powerful. Stephanie Coontz

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Historically, mass demonstrations have worked best at shifting public opinion and pressuring the powers-that-be when organizers highlighted one concrete demand: 'Bring Our Boys Home from Vietnam'; 'End Segregation Now'; 'Support Women's Right to Choose.' Stephanie Coontz

Best Home Women Shifting Our Segregation Support Demand Mass Opinion Boy Concrete Demonstrations End Historically Public Worked Vietnam Choose Public Opinion Now Right Bring

If we want to revive and achieve the American Dream, we need to change a situation in which the people whose hard work makes this country run cannot earn a living wage, while bankers, speculators, and corporate elites - the real 'takers' in today's society - skim off far more than their fair share. Stephanie Coontz

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

Education Women Having More Biggest Careers

As time passes, the actual complexity of our history - even of our own personal experience - gets buried under the weight of the ideal image. Stephanie Coontz

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Marriage has been in a constant state of evolution since the dawn of the Stone Age. In the process, it has become more flexible - but also more optional. Stephanie Coontz

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Deciding together to have a child and sharing in child-rearing do not immunize a marriage. Indeed, collaborative couples can face other problems. They often embark on such an intense style of parenting that they end up paying less attention to each other. Stephanie Coontz

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Marriage can provide a bounty of emotional, practical, and financial support. But finding the right mate is no substitute for having friends and other interests. Stephanie Coontz

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Our goal should be to develop work-life policies that enable people to put their gender values into practice. So let's stop arguing about the hard choices women make and help more women and men avoid such hard choices. Stephanie Coontz

There's nothing wrong with celebrating the good things in our past. But memories, like witnesses, do not always tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. We need to cross-examine them, recognizing and accepting the inconsistencies and gaps in those that make us proud and happy as well as those that cause us pain. Stephanie Coontz

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There is no denying that we have made great progress toward gender equality. Stephanie Coontz

Great Equality Progress Made Gender Great Progress Toward Denying

Hyper-parenting has many pitfalls. Overprotected and overpraised children may develop an inflated sense of entitlement. Stephanie Coontz

Entitlement Sense Develop May Inflated Pitfalls Children Many

The real gender inequality in marriage stems from the tendency to regard women as the default parent, the one who, in the absence of family-friendly work policies, is expected to adjust her paid work to shoulder the brunt of domestic responsibilities. Stephanie Coontz

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Especially around Valentine's Day, it's easy to find advice about sustaining a successful marriage, with suggestions for 'date nights' and romantic dinners for two. But as we spend more and more of our lives outside marriage, it's equally important to cultivate the skills of successful singlehood. Stephanie Coontz

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As Americans lose the wider face-to-face ties that build social trust, they become more dependent on romantic relationships for intimacy and deep communication and more vulnerable to isolation if a relationship breaks down. Stephanie Coontz

Putting women's traditional needs at the center of social planning is not reverse sexism. It's the best way to reverse the increasing economic vulnerability of men and women alike. Stephanie Coontz

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Turning back the inequality revolution may be difficult. But that would certainly help more families - at almost all income levels - than turning back the gender revolution. Stephanie Coontz

Gender Revolution Difficult Back Would More Almost Almost All Inequality Families Than May Turning Certainly Help Income Levels

In my work as a historian and in my relationships as a friend, teacher, wife, and mother, I have come to think that the most useful way to understand the past and make it work for you is to look at the trade-offs and contradictions that, however deeply buried, can be uncovered in every memory, good or bad. Stephanie Coontz

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Why do people - gay or straight - need the state's permission to marry? For most of Western history, they didn't, because marriage was a private contract between two families. The parents' agreement to the match, not the approval of church or state, was what confirmed its validity. Stephanie Coontz

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