Therefore, when a man uses his priesthood, his wife and children are actually the direct beneficiaries. The husband derives no direct benefit from holding the priesthood. He only receives indirect benefits from it by seeing his wife and children receive the Lord's blessings. Let us now emphasize some very important points about the gospel as taught by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. First, Latter-day Saints do believe that fathers preside over their families.
Wives have a responsibility to follow their husband's counsel and instructions.
It should be mentioned that they have a responsibility to follow their own husband's counsel, the husband they personally chose and selected, and not anyone else. However, a husband's authority is only valid if it is consistent with righteousness and the will of God. If a father tries to unrighteously instruct his family, then his authority evaporates and no one should follow him. If a man is determined to expose the lives of his friends, let that man go to the devil and to destruction alone. Such descriptions are not only untrue, but offensive to Latter-day Saint men.