Parents provide for their children food, clothes, love, security, etc., and the children provide for their parents opportunities and responsibilities for which manhood and womanhood were made. Husband and wife provide intimate acceptance and love needs in the bonds of marriage. Thus, marriage, home, and family become the setting for growth and maturity from infancy to old age, generation after generation. God planned marriage to establish a stable center of learning from generation to generation. We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.
Children are learners.
They need teachers who instruct them in ways of truth and righteousness. It takes failure in only one generation for the knowledge of God to be cut off from succeeding generations. Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it. . . .