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- Nov 07, 2020
Family-Friendly Quotes
What 'family-friendly' really means in practice.
Family-friendly shows up here as a career choice — actors picking Age-appropriate roles over edgier ones — and as a design philosophy behind entire suburbs built for comfort and control.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone has embraced the family-friendly Disney approach, which is great. I see all of those movies, and I take my kids. But I grew up on 'Predator,' 'Alien,' and 'Terminator.' People forget, but those were R-rated movies. So 'Deadpool' put its money where its mouth is, and it changed the game.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've definitely taken more family-friendly roles. Honestly, sometimes the edgier acting roles are not age-appropriate for kids but I have taken more projects that I feel have a great message or my kids can watch because of their age and that were just plain fun.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd always done family-friendly stuff. I wanted to do a film where I could show my darker side and make people uncomfortable.
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- Nov 07, 2020
One reason the United States is one of three countries in the world that do not have any form of paid maternity leave is that many American business leaders, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, oppose any family-friendly policies. They scare people into thinking maternity leave will be a job killer.
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Job Killer.' Those are the two words you are most likely to hear uttered by most American CEOs when confronted with proposals to enact family-friendly work policies.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've made out more this season on a family-friendly show than ever in my actual life.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole idea of the suburbs was to create these family-friendly places where people could flock and have more control over their existences, and keep things very controlled and placid and keep outside forces at bay.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dismissing socialization and gender roles as piddling compared to this amorphous idea of 'maternal imperative' is part of the reason progress is stalled for family-friendly policies.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a supportive family and an outstanding team, but I also have a flexible work schedule that allows me, at least some of the time, to get to the kids' school program or the doctor visits when I need to. So family-friendly work schedules have become more of a passion of mine, and the cost of childcare is also a huge issue.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will only do family-friendly films or television. They don't have to necessarily be Christian films, but I want to be in things that I'm comfortable having my children and husband watch. They come first in my life, not the film industry.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The strategy we need to pursue is one of recovering our time - to push back on our hours of work. We need to form a new alliance between feminist groups, labor unions, child advocates, progressive corporations, and the federal government insofar as it's willing to pursue a family-friendly agenda.
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- Nov 07, 2020