The nuclear family is the single most important institution in any society.
Without it, our very existence would quickly become jeopardized.
Yet there are some who are attempting to break down the family and by doing so, their efforts
are an attack on humanity.
Here are three reasons why the family unit is fundamental to society.
Research conducted by health professionals
provides ample evidence demonstrating that a married couple is statistically better equipped
when compared to cohabiting couples or single-parent families, to provide a more favourable home
for the development of children.
For example, a medical paper by Wendy D. Manning titled 'Cohabitation and Child Wellbeing'
stated the following on:
You can review the paper and supporting studies by following the link in the description but
the takeaway is that the primary purpose of a healthy family unit is to provide a home,
afford protection and support the general well-being of children.
Without the nuclear family, the necessary regeneration of society would ultimately collapse.
The home, when carefully balanced with a loving father and mother, is at its most advantageous
and it forms the bedrock from which sound-minded children can be raised.
Learned values are passed on from one generation to the next; by both example and word, parents
must raise their children to know how to live and interact with others.
Professor of sociology at Princeton University,
Sara McLanahan (herself a single parent for ten years), was part of 'The Fragile Families
and Child Wellbeing Study' which examined the differences between five thousand children
who had grown up in either a single-parent or two-parent home.
Dr. McLanahan revealed in a BBC article that:
In an earlier paper found in Volume 56 of the American Sociological Review, of which
McLanahan was a co-author,
The paper explains...
On both a national and a local community level, governments would do well to support and invest
in the nuclear family as statistically, it is the most successful institution in which
future generations are developed.
The beneficial results from well-behaved, well-educated and stable children is not confined
within the walls of a home; society as a whole benefits from children who grow up to be successful
and have a greater sense of purpose than their own existence.
Canadian author William D. Gairdner probably says it best when he wrote:
Research confirms that no other institution
will care for the well-being of children like a family unit.
Good parents must be unequivocally invested in the life of their children.
Yet since the days of Plato, philosophers and politicians have been suggesting ways
in which the State can raise children in an attempt to subvert the traditional family.
In Book V of his Republic, Plato wrote the following:
The state-driven preferential ideas of Plato were passed on to French Philosopher Jean-Jacques
Rousseau and then to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
As a result, Communism and by default, Socialism has probably been the greatest all-time net
contributors to the breakdown of the family.
Engels was clear in his desire to see traditional roles of husband and wife, as well as parent
and child, entirely erased from society.
For some reason, the family is being attacked by key elements of society and in doing so
our Western nations are unravelling.
We need to carefully consider the benefits a family provides and choose, based on scientific
observation, statistical analysis and biblical wisdom, the best way forward for humanity.
"...choose life, that both you and your descendants may live"