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Thursday 2nd of October 2025

Families American working-class families experience a level of instability unseen elsewhere in the world. Consider, for instance, mom's revolving door of father figures. No other country experiences anything like this. In France, the percentage of children exposed to three or more maternal partners is 0.5 percent—about one in two hundred. The second highest share is 2.6 percent, in Sweden, or about one in forty. In the United States, the figure is a shocking 8.2 percent — about one in twelve — and the figure is even higher in the working class. J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy © 2016 Kwiple.com
Families Chaos begets chaos. Instability begets instability. Welcome to family life for the American hillbilly. J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy © 2016 Kwiple.com
Families Someone once compared the Trumps to the Borgias. But at least the Borgias supported the arts. Mary Trump, Financial Times, August 7, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Family [My mother] was a very strong-minded, brilliant woman, but she was Cronus-like: she gave birth to us in the morning and ate us at night, every day. Jamaica Kincaid © 2022 Kwiple.com
Family There ain't nobody in this here world that I'd rather have standin' next to me in a beer joint brawl than my maw with a broken bottle in her hand. Hank Williams © 2016 Kwiple.com
Family man It was a personal decision, and had only one basis in fact: the well-being of my wonderful family, nothing more and nothing less. George Tenet, on his resignation as CIA Director after it mishandled the 9/11 attacks and the invasion of Iraq © 2015 Kwiple.com
 
Family values Did you notice that there were no charges? Well, if there are no charges that means it shouldn't be mentioned. Donald Trump, on newspaper reports about his father, Fred, who was arrested but not prosecuted for participating in a 1927 battle between Ku Klux Klan members and supporters and New York City policemen © 2016 Kwiple.com