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Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.

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The structure of the family is not born in nature but in human design. What we can do, we can also undo.

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Personal change, growth, development, identity formation--these tasks that once were thought to belong to childhood and adolescence alone now are recognized as part of adult life as well. Gone is the belief that adulthood is, or ought to be, a time of internal peace and comfort, that growing pains belong only to the young; gone the belief that these are marker events--a job, a mate, a child--through which we will pass into a life of relative ease.

Children, Jobs, Marker, Mate, Pain, Tasks

Children crawl before they walk, walk before they run--each generally a precondition for the other. And with each step they take toward more independence, more mastery of the environment, their mothers take a step away--each a small separation, a small distancing.

Children, Distancing, Mother, Mothers, Running, Separation

No revolution creates a wholly new universe. Rather, it reflects the history and culture that spawned it.

Culture, History, History And Culture, Revolution, Spawned

Society and personality live in a continuing reciprocal relation with each other. The search for personal change without efforts to change the institutions within which we live and grow will, therefore, be met with only limited reward.

Change, Effort, Grow, Met, Personality

In fact, the family as an institution is both oppressive and protective and, depending on the issue, is experienced sometimes one way, sometimes the other - often in some mix of the two - by most people who live in families.

Families, Family, Institution, Issues, People, Two
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