They should enhance gospel-centered family activities, not compete with them. However worthy and appropriate other demands or activities may be, they must not be permitted to displace the divinely-appointed duties that only parents and families can adequately perform. 8 Families, like wards, vary in size and shape. Babies are born and mature to become parents and then grandparents. One family divides itself to become several.
Wards grow and are divided.
Where there was one, there are others. Whatever happens in the world, whatever heights of civility or depths of depravity emerge in society, the plan remains unaltered. The Church will grow until it fills the whole earth. At once it will remain no bigger than the ward. The Church provides activities and associations and ordinances and ordinations and covenants and contracts and corrections which prepare each of us for exaltation.