Fathers teach both their sons and daughters with everything they do. Boys learn how to be men from their fathers. How their father treats his wife and mother teaches them how to respect women. How their father handles his temper and adversity teaches them how to solve problems. How he behaves towards speed limits, priests, and credit cards will teach his sons how to be men.
Girls learn what to expect from marriage from their fathers.
How he treats his wife will teach them how their husbands should treat them. If their father treats them with respect and dignity, taught them to value their feminity and the vocation of marriage, then they will look for a man that will live up to those standards. How he behaves towards obligations, police men, and monthly bills will teach his daughters what to look for in a man and a marriage. Which brings me to the second part of this issue's theme - vocational choices. Marriage is a vocation, like the priesthood and the religious life, it is a way to serve God by serving others.