Margaret Mead's Quote - Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by its

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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

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It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age. – Margaret Mead

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Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders. – Margaret Mead

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It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly. – Margaret Mead

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