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The duty of caring for failing elderly relatives is more than a family matter, a personal dilemma, or a sex equity issue. Basically, it is a problem of how our society views old and disabled people. With the growing numbers of chronically ill, it can no longer be some other family’s tragedy. Eventually we must face hard questions, as individuals and as a nation.
—Tish Sommers (20th century)
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Any one who knows what the worth of family affection is among the lower classes, and who has seen the array of little portraits stuck over a labourer’s fireplace ... will perhaps feel with me that in counteracting the tendencies, social and industrial, which every day are sapping the healthier family affections, the sixpenny photograph is doing more for the poor than all the philanthropists in the world.
—Macmillan’s Magazine (London, September 1871)
Family Relationships, Keeping In Touch ... Our society thrives on strong family relationships Our family teaches us how to function in the world...
Family Relationships ... Perhaps it is best for family relationships if people are not right next to each other, I don’t really know... I enjoy my aunts and uncles just fine, but I can’t stand to be around them when family relationships are strained...