Sharing Is Sometimes More Demanding

Fluidity And Discontinuity Are Central To The Reality In Which We Live.

The Family Is Changing Not Disappearing. We Have To Broaden Our Understanding Of It, Look For The New Metaphors.

Often Continuity Is Visible Only In Retrospect.

Learning To Savor The Vertigo Of Doing Without Answers Or Making Do With Fragmentary Ones Opens Up The Pleasures Of Recognizing And Playing With Patterns, Finding Coherence Within Complexity, Sharing Within Multiplicity.

Traditionally In American Society, Men Have Been Trained For Both Competition And Teamwork Through Sports, While Women Have Been Reared To Merge Their Welfare With That Of The Family, With Fewer Opportunities For Either Independence Or Other Team Identifications, And Fewer Challenges To Direct Competition. In Effect, Women Have Been Circumscribed Within That Unit Where The Benefit Of One Is Most Easily Believed To Be The Benefit Of All.