Parents must regard their children as children of God and respect them as human persons . Showing themselves obedient to the Father in heaven, they educate their children to fulfill God's law. Parents have the first responsibility for the education of their children. They bear witness to this responsibility by first creating a home where tenderness, forgiveness, respect, fidelity, and disinterested service are the rule. The home is well suited for education in the virtues.
Parents have a grave responsibility to give a good example to their children.
He who disciplines his son will profit by him. The home is the natural environment for initiating a human being into solidarity and communal responsibilities. Parents should teach their children to avoid the compromising and degrading influences which threaten human societies. Through the grace of the sacrament of marriage, parents receive the responsibility and privilege or evangelizing their children . They should associate them from their tenderest years into the life of the Church.