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We come from fallible parents who were kids once, who decided to have kids and who had to learn how to be parents. Faults are made and damage is done, whether it's conscious or not. Everyone's got their own 'stuff,' their own issues, and their own anger at Mom and Dad. That is what family is. Family is almost naturally dysfunctional.

When there's trouble in a family, it tends to show up in the weakest member. And all the other members of the family know that. They make allowances for the one in trouble.

There are families of every kind. I think a lot of people are struggling to make sense of their identity in a very complicated world.

The concept of the strong linkage to the family is breaking down in Western nations.

There is only one way to solve the alleged crisis of the erosion of 'family values.' And that is to get right down to the root cause of the problem.

Families in real life don't tend to resolve things neatly.

I think families find a dynamic that works for them.

A family is very special. So when a family splits up, it's not good, it's never good.

Parents are perhaps the most common object of resentment, the people who are most frequently blamed for all our failings and failures alike.

Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things - it almost becomes second nature to do so.