Broken families: hearings before the Subcommittee on Family and Human Services of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, first session, on oversight on the breakdown of the traditional family unit, focusing on the effects of divorce, separation, and conflict within marriage on children and on women and men, Part 2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1983 - Broken homes |
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Page 98 - Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord ; and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
Page 110 - Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman...
Page 110 - But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.
Page 100 - But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things— and the things that are not— to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him.
Page 64 - It is plain that the interest of a parent in the companionship, care, custody, and management of his or her children "comefs] to this Court with a momentum for respect lacking when appeal is made to liberties which derive merely from shifting economic arrangements.
Page 65 - It is cardinal with us that the custody, care and nurture of the child reside first in the parents, whose primary function and freedom include preparation for obligations the state can neither supply nor hinder.
Page 110 - When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman: if when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people; then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.
Page 41 - With the passage of the means of production into common property, the individual family ceases to be the economic unit of society. Private housekeeping is transformed into a social industry. The care and education of the children becomes a public matter. Society takes care of all children equally, irrespective of whether they are born in wedlock or not. Thus, the anxiety about the "consequences...
Page 265 - GNP can be viewed in terms of expenditure categories which include purchases of goods and services by consumers and government, gross private domestic investment, and net exports of goods and services. The goods and services included are largely those bought for final use (excluding illegal transactions...
Page 115 - To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.