I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings.

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.

Studies have shown that since women have had access to the pill and family planning measures, they have made huge gains in both wages and in careers that were dominated by men.

For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place.

Mental illness is the last frontier. The gay thing is part of everyday life now on a show like 'Modern Family,' but mental illness is still full of stigma. Maybe it is time for that to change.

If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.

It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.

In a big family the first child is kind of like the first pancake. If it's not perfect, that's okay, there are a lot more coming along.