You know what is important and the ethics and values you want to convey. You might be fighting an uphill battle, but it's a battle worth fighting. Parents must make conscious choices to be involved with their children. Families must choose to read together, pray together, work together. After five years of watching government attempt to fill gaps when mothers and fathers neglected their responsibilities, it is clear that our future lies in what happens inside our families.
Families are the essence of a civilized society.
Without strong family units, our principles and relationships lose their depth and meaning. I grew up in the northern Utah farming community of Newton. I not only had a wonderful mother, but the luxury of a grandmother living next door. Home is the place where children learn to love, says nationally known therapist Dr. Sidney Gerrard. And the heart of that teaching is the mother.