Margaret Mead Quotes about Family

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where families suffer from disasters that are preventable, this is a measure of a whole nation's neglect. A society imperils its own future when, out of negligence or contempt, it overlooks the need of children to be

where families suffer from disasters that are preventable, this is a measure of a whole nation's neglect. A society imperils its own future when, out of negligence or contempt, it overlooks the need of children to be reared in a family ... or when, in the midst of plenty, some families cannot give their children adequate food and shelter, safe activity and rest, and an opportunity to grow into full adulthood as people who can care for and cherish other human beings like themselves.

Margaret Mead

Family, Children, Opportunity

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.

Margaret Mead

Family, Impossible Situations, Support

"Culture and Commitment: A Study of the Generation Gap". Book by Margaret Mead, 1970.

No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.

Margaret Mead

Family, Women, Matter

"Future Families". Margaret Mead in "The American People in the Age of Kennedy" edited by David M. Kennedy (p. 108), 1973.

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

Margaret Mead

Life, Relationship, Family

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

Margaret Mead

Relationship, Family, Sister

Attributed to Margaret Mead in Ellyn Sanna "Sisters by Birth Friends by Choice: All the Things I Love About You", June 2003.

In our contemporary world, no one can think or work with a single picture of what a family is. No one can fit all human behavior, all thought and feeling, into a single pattern.

Margaret Mead

Family, Thinking, Feelings

Margaret Mead (1965). “Family”

The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.

Margaret Mead

Family, Pain, Mind

Margaret Mead (1972). “Blkberry Winter”

the task of each family is also the task of all humanity. This is to cherish the living, remember those who have gone before, and prepare for those who are not yet born.

Margaret Mead

Family, Humanity, Tasks

Margaret Mead (1965). “Family”

As far back as our knowledge takes us, human beings have lived in families. We know of no period when this was not so. We know of no people who have succeeded for long in dissolving the family or displacing it.

Margaret Mead

Family, Long, People

Margaret Mead (1965). “Family”