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Spending $1 for a brand new house would feel very, very good. Spending $1,000 for a ham sandwich would feel very, very bad. Spending $19,000 for a small family car would feel, well, more or less right. But as with physical pain, fiscal pain can depend on the individual, and everyone has a different threshold.

It is one of the worst-kept secrets of family life that all parents have a preferred son or daughter, and the rules for acknowledging it are the same everywhere: The favored kids recognize their status and keep quiet about it - the better to preserve the good thing they've got going and to keep their siblings off their back.

There is a sort of sibling moratorium when you are establishing yourself as an adult. So much of your energy has to be focused on other things like work and kids. But when people become more settled, siblings tend to regroup because now you are building a new extended family.

Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.

A close family member once offered his opinion that I exhibit the phone manners of a goat, then promptly withdrew the charge - out of fairness to goats.

Coming home to my family afterward makes the work richer, easier and more fun.

Equal pay is not just a women is issue when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.

I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly.

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we did not have any money, because Africa was the dark continent', and because I was a girl.

When I look back over my life it is almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn't afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.

You can be cool and at the same time respect your woman, who will hopefully become your wife, who will hopefully become the mother of your kids. America needs to get back to family values.

I am very excited about my new agreement with the Heat. This contract allows me to address all of my family's long-term financial goals while allowing the Heat the ability to acquire those players that we need to win a championship.

For me, it is about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It is where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that is very important to me.

While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did.

I was always on the go, and thought I was too busy to develop something like this. I thought at the time that diabetes went along with bad habits, but I was the last one in my family to eat junk food.

In my family in particular, I think, there was a sense we have to work twice as hard.

My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son.

I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.

We are a very crafty family.

I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.