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Stephanie Coontz
American
Author
Born:
Aug 31
,
1944
Family
Marriage
Men
People
Women
Work
Related authors:
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Frederick Douglass
Helen Keller
Henry David Thoreau
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Mark Twain
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Zig Ziglar
Couples need time alone to renew their relationship. They also need to sustain supportive networks of friends and family.
Stephanie Coontz
Alone
Time
Family
Relationship
Networks
Supportive
Also
Couples
Renew
Friends
Friends And Family
Sustain
Need
A primary motivation for introducing no-fault divorce was, in fact, to reduce perjury in the legal system.
Stephanie Coontz
Legal
System
Introducing
Fact
Divorce
Primary
Perjury
Reduce
Motivation
Legal System
In Fact
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.
Stephanie Coontz
Work
Good
You
Marriage
Better
Mind
First
Past
Out
Able
Some
About
No Regrets
Had
Hostility
First Place
Because
Were
Up
Than
Accumulate
Get
Place
Former
Regrets
Aspects
Your
Being a feminist is not about how successful, talented, and assertive you are in your own life. It's about whether you support the struggle to overcome the limiting gendered stereotypes and barriers that force so many women to restrict their aspirations as workers, to fulfill their aspirations as parents, and force so many men to do the opposite.
Stephanie Coontz
Life
You
Struggle
Women
Overcome
Men
Parents
Own
About
Restrict
Support
Stereotypes
Talented
Force
How
Limiting
Feminist
Opposite
Being
Whether
Successful
Workers
Fulfill
Your
Aspirations
Barriers
Many
Assertive
Second marriages can and do create 'real' families.
Stephanie Coontz
Marriages
Real
Families
Create
Second
I've had the kind of complex life I write about. I was a single mother for 12 years. I'd been engaged. The wedding fell through. I then discovered I was pregnant and opted to have the child on my own. I was a professor. I was in my mid-30s. I could manage it financially.
Stephanie Coontz
Life
Mother
Single
Own
Complex
Kind
Financially
About
My Own
Wedding
Could
Through
Write
Had
Fell
Single Mother
Been
Years
Discovered
Child
Manage
Pregnant
Then
Engaged
Professor
Donald Trump has tapped into a deep vein of racism, nativism, and misogyny.
Stephanie Coontz
Racism
Vein
Trump
Donald
Donald Trump
Deep
Presidents Reagan and the first George Bush never used the vile language of some Trump supporters, but both blamed scarce resources and decaying communities on 'welfare queens' and black criminals like Willie Horton.
Stephanie Coontz
Vile
Welfare
Language
Black
First
Resources
Criminals
Presidents
Willie
Scarce
Some
Blamed
Both
Horton
Never
Supporters
Like
Reagan
George
Queens
George Bush
Trump
Decaying
Bush
Used
Communities
When liberals dismiss all Trump supporters as racists, this only fuels their anger.
Stephanie Coontz
Anger
Liberals
Only
Supporters
Trump
Fuels
Dismiss
Racists
Marriage is no longer the main way in which societies regulate sexuality and parenting or organize the division of labor between men and women.
Stephanie Coontz
Parenting
Marriage
Women
Men
Men And Women
Way
Sexuality
Main
Division
Between
Longer
Labor
Which
Organize
Regulate
Societies
As soon as love became the driving force behind marriage, people began to demand the right to remain single if they had not found love or to divorce if they fell out of love.
Stephanie Coontz
Love
Marriage
People
Single
Out
Remain
Had
Driving
Driving Force
Divorce
Soon
Demand
Fell
Force
Became
Began
Behind
Found
Right
Economically as well as emotionally, modern marriage has become like an affluent gated community. It has become harder for low-income Americans to enter and sustain.
Stephanie Coontz
Marriage
Become
Community
Enter
Emotionally
Economically
Like
Well
Affluent
American
Modern
Sustain
Low-Income
Harder
The place where we keep our clothes isn't always the only place where we keep our commitments.
Stephanie Coontz
Clothes
Our
Only
Always
Commitments
Where
Place
Keep
Whatever their relative valuation of the single and married states, most societies in history made sharp distinctions between those who married and those who remained single: They were seen as mutually exclusive ways of life, with different legal rights and social obligations.
Stephanie Coontz
Life
History
Rights
Obligations
Legal
Made
Seen
Single
Whatever
Relative
States
Distinctions
Ways
Those
Married
Mutually
Mutually Exclusive
Remained
Sharp
Between
Exclusive
Most
Were
Legal Rights
Different
Social
Who
Societies
Because we live so much of our adult lives as singles, it no longer makes sense to assume that marriage is the only way people will organize their obligations and commitments.
Stephanie Coontz
Obligations
Marriage
People
Will
Sense
Live
Assume
Our
Way
Only
Adult
Longer
Because
Makes
Singles
Commitments
Much
Organize
Lives
We need to push for work-family practices and policies that allow individuals to customize their work lives according to their changing individual preferences and family obligations, not just their traditional gender roles.
Stephanie Coontz
Work
Family
Obligations
Gender
Changing
Individual
Push
Allow
Individuals
Policies
Practices
Traditional
According
Roles
Just
Preferences
Lives
Need
Historically, it has required a combination of favorable employment trends and active government intervention to lower the percentage of people in poverty and raise living standards for the working middle class.
Stephanie Coontz
Government
Class
People
Poverty
Active
Living
Intervention
Trends
Favorable
Percentage
Combination
Employment
Historically
Middle
Middle Class
Lower
Required
Working
Standards
Raise
During the 1960s, rising real wages for low-income and high-income workers, due in part to rapid economic growth and the spread of unionization, worked in tandem with expanding government support systems to improve Americans' well-being.
Stephanie Coontz
Government
Systems
Rapid
Rising
Economic
Economic Growth
Part
Support
Well-Being
Real
Spread
Tandem
Due
Wages
Expanding
Improve
American
Low-Income
Worked
Workers
Growth
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