Margaret Mead: “Settled in their new homes and finding themselves with nothing to do at home, suburbanites are caught in the boredom characteristic of the American family when its members are imprisoned with one another.” (From “Freedom To Choose”, in The End of Innocence: A Suburban Reader, Charles M. Haar ed., 1972. Quoted in Palen, The Suburbs, 1994. p. 83)

(Palen, J. John. The Suburbs. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1995. Print.)