Some things I refuse to talk about on social networking sites. Some things are off limits, like issues with family.

I’ve had a rough past with family problems, but you don’t need to bring it up. You’re not perfect either so sit down.

There is no such thing as the perfect family. Every family is unique with its own combination of strengths and weaknesses.

Burdens and opposition will always be there. What is really needed is a clear solid path towards problem resolution and then being mutually encouraged as a family.

There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation.

Take any problem in life and it will fall under one of three categories… money, health or relationships.

Running away from your family’s problems will not provide solutions. What you really want are solid solutions and a reasonable plan to address family conflict and pain.

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.

Family problems come in all shapes and sizes; some are short-lived and easily managed, while others are more chronic and difficult to handle.

No matter what you’ve done for yourself or for humanity, if you can’t look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?

Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn’t listening.

Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back. — Mignon McLaughlin

Problems are like washing machines. They twist us, spin us and knock us around but in the end we come out cleaner, brighter and better than before.

I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me.

A busy mother makes slothful daughters. — Portuguese Proverb

The American family is not simply changing; it is getting weaker. . . . Family decline drives some of our most urgent social problems. . . . The heart of the family problem lies in the steady breakup of the two-parent home.

You can’t teach a son to be loyal if the father is not loyal. The same applies with the mother and her daughter.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. — George Bernard Shaw

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. — Bertrand Russell