America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.

Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.

Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.