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Samoa culture demonstrates how much the tragic or the easy solution of the Oedipus situation depends upon the inter-relationship between parents and children, and is not created out of whole cloth by the young child's

Samoa culture demonstrates how much the tragic or the easy solution of the Oedipus situation depends upon the inter-relationship between parents and children, and is not created out of whole cloth by the young child's biological impulses.

Margaret Mead
Children, Science, Oedipus
Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

Each home has been reduced to the bare essentials -- to barer essentials than most primitive people would consider possible. Only one woman's hands to feed the baby, answer the telephone, turn off the gas under the pot that is boiling over, soothe the older child who has broken a toy, and open both doors at once. She is a nutritionist, a child psychologist, an engineer, a production manager, an expert buyer, all in one. Her husband sees her as free to plan her own time, and envies her; she sees him as having regular hours and envies him.

Margaret Mead
Baby, Husband, Children
Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

There is no evidence that suggests women are naturally better at caring for children... with the fact of child-bearing out of the centre of attention, there is even more reason for treating girls first as human beings, then as women.

Margaret Mead
Girl, Children, Caring

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.

Margaret Mead
Children, Animal, Welfare

to the extent that either sex is disadvantaged, the whole culture is poorer, and the sex that, superficially, inherits the earth, inherits only a very partial legacy. The more whole the culture, the more whole each member, each man, each woman, each child will be.

Margaret Mead
Sex, Children, Equality
Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

Any town that doesn't have sidewalks doesn't love its children.

Margaret Mead
Children, Towns, Sidewalk

This is a precious possession which we cannot afford to tarnish, but society always is attempting to make the physician into a killer to kill the defective child at birth, to leave the sleeping pills beside the bed of the cancer patient ... It is the duty of society to protect the physicians from such requests.

Margaret Mead
Children, Cancer, Sleep

The suffering of either sex - of the male who is unable, because of the way in which he was reared, to take the strong initiating or patriarchal role that is still demanded of him, or of the female who has been given too much freedom of movement as a child to stay placidly within the house as an adult - this suffering, this discrepancy, this sense of failure in an enjoined role, is the point of leverage for social change.

Margaret Mead
Strong, Sex, Children

today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.

Margaret Mead
Children, Growing Up, War
Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1970). “A way of seeing”

[Among the Arapeh... both father and mother are held responsible for child care by the entire community...] If one comments upon a middle-aged man as good-looking, the people answer: 'Good-looking? Ye-e-e-s? But you should have seen him before he bore all those children'.

Margaret Mead
Mother, Children, Father
"Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies". Book by Margaret Mead, p. 55, 1935.

I am interested in what happens to people who find the whole of life so rewarding that they are able to move through it with the same kind of delight in which a child moves through a game.

Margaret Mead
Children, Moving, Games

Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Margaret Mead
Children, Quality, Needs
Attributed to Margaret Mead in Fleur L. Strand "Physiology: A Regulatory Systems Approach" (p. 509), 1978.

I was a child that both my parents wanted. I was told from the time I was born that I was totally satisfactory. I had a chance to be what I wanted to be.

Margaret Mead
Children, Parent, Mentor

If we are to give our utmost effort and skill and enthusiasm, we must believe in ourselves, which means believing in our past and in our future, in our parents and in our children, in that particular blend of moral purpose and practical inventiveness which is the American character.

Margaret Mead
Children, Believe, Character
"And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America". Book by Margaret Mead, 1942.

The older child who has lost or broken some valuable thing will be found when his parents return, not run away, not willing to confess, but in a deep sleep. The thief whose case is being tried falls asleep.

Margaret Mead
Running, Children, Fall
"Balinese Character". Book by Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, 1942.

Today our approaches to children are fragmented and partial. Those who care for well children know little of children who are sick. The deep knowledge that comes from the intensive attempt to cure is separated from the knowledge of those whose main task is to teach.

Margaret Mead
Children, Sick, Who Cares
Margaret Mead (1964). “Continuities in Cultural Evolution”, p.321, Transaction Publishers

The protection of a ten-year-old girl from her father's advances is a necessary condition of social order, but the protection of the father from temptation is a necessary condition of his continued social adjustment. The protections that are built up in the child against desire for the parent become the essential counterpart to the attitudes in the parent that protect the child.

Margaret Mead
Girl, Children, Attitude
Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

the experience of having brothers and sisters, born of the same parents, sleeping under the same roof, eating at the same table, is an inescapable, delightful and repelling, desired and abhorred part of each child's life.

Margaret Mead
Brother, Children, Sleep
Margaret Mead (1965). “Family”