What families do for the nation.

Abstract

The family is the only socially recognized relation for childbearing and the essential agency for child rearing, sociolization, and introducing the child to the culture of the society, thereby shaping the basic character structure of our culture and forming the child's personality. The family is the primary agency for protecting physical and mental health. Moreover, the family must provide what adult men and women need for their fulfilment as personalities. Since the familyis being revealed as the source of much of human frustration and defeat, the improvement of family life has become socially imperative. A broad national policy for family life is needed, which will reaffirm its place and function and direct all other interests and activities to that goal.