1. Deep inside us, we know what every family therapist knows: the problems between the parents become the problems within the children.-Roger Gould
2. Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn’t listening.-Emma Thompson
3. Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.-F. Scott Fitzgerald
4. In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm.-Isaac Rosenfeld
5. Most couples have not had hundreds of arguments; they’ve had the same argument hundreds of times.-Gay Hendricks
6. Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.-Mignon McLaughlin
7. It doesn’t matter what kind of problems a family is having; it should always stay in the family.-Scott Weiland
8. We’re a very close family and we’re a very real family, and I think every real family has real problems.-Emilio Estevez
9. I can’t say it’s not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise.-LaToya Jackson
10. Family problems come in all shapes and sizes; some are short-lived and easily managed, while others are more chronic and difficult to handle.-unknown
11. Sometimes problems don’t require a solution to solve them; instead they require maturity to outgrow them.-Steve Maraboli
12. All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.-Leo Tolstoy
13. How many solutions are found to family problems if we take time to reflect? If we think of a husband or wife and we dream about their good qualities that they have? Don’t ever lose the illusion of when you were boyfriend and girlfriend!-Pope Francis
14. I don’t think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It’s perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.-Toni Morrison
15. If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.-George Bernard Shaw
16. You can’t teach a son to be loyal if the father is not loyal. The same applies with the mother and her daughter.-Mercy Pheona
17. The American family is not simply changing; it is getting weaker. . . . Family decline drives some of our most urgent social problems. . . . The heart of the family problem lies in the steady breakup of the two-parent home.-David Popenoe
18. A busy mother makes slothful daughters.-Portuguese Proverb
19. Otherwise, you just become partners managing the kids and life, and that makes your marriage more vulnerable to problems down the road.-Laura Berman
20. The old problems – love, money, security, status, health, etc. – are still here to plague us or please us.-Shelley Berman
21. Pick a dysfunction and it’s a family problem.-Robert Downey, Jr.
22. Families and their problems go on and on, and they aren’t solved, they’re dealt with.-Roger Ebert
23. I was the black sheep of the family, and my mother never really understood me.-Andre Rieu
24. After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul’s indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.-William R. Alger