Family
Penelope Tree is the only child of Ronald, a journalist, investor and British MP, and Marietta Tree, a U.S. socialite and political activist. She is the great-granddaughter of American retailer Marshall Field and of American educator Rev. Endicott Peabody. She is the half-sister of author Frances FitzGerald and a niece of former Massachusetts governor Endicott Peabody.
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“The family environment in which your children are growing up is different from that in which you grew up. The decisions our parents made and the strategies they used were developed in a different context from what we face today, even if the “content” of the problem is the same. It is a mistake to think that our own experience as children and adolescents will give us all we need to help our children. The rules of the game have changed.”
—Lawrence Kutner (20th century)
“Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.”
—Max Lerner (b. 1902)
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