Kenneth Keniston Quote

To be sure, changes in American family structure have been fairly continuous since the first European settlements, but today thesechanges seem to be occurring so rapidly that the shift is no longer a simple extension of long-term trends. We have passed a genuine watershed: this is the first time in our history that the typical school-age child has a mother who works outside the home.

All our children: the American family under pressure (ed. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P, 1977)