Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?

The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.

My family is my strength and my weakness.

I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.

The most difficult is the first family, to bring someone out of the world.

It takes a lot of work to put together a marriage, to put together a family and a home.

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.

I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.