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My parents suffered from that ideal of a perfect nuclear family. They found that a difficult pressure, I think.

The nuclear family doesn't work. It's very destructive; it grew out of selfishness.

Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.

Combined families often get bad reviews, but the family my children got when they traded away 'the suffocating four-person' nuclear one is one that has benefited all of them.

We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother.

I had such a great mom and I know that I'd never be that mom. I wouldn't want to bring a child into this world unless I could be.

Good mothers make all kinds of choices. Making a decision that might sound selfish does not make a woman a bad mother.

It's complicated coming from a culture where to be a mother is more important than to have a career.

I don't think I would have been a good mother. Being a parent brings immense responsibility. It's a Herculean task. It would be almost too much for me.

If a good mother is one who loves her child more than anyone else in the world, I am not a good mother. I am in fact a bad mother. I love my husband more than I love my children.