The Importance Of The Family

The family is the basic unit of the society. They are peoples’ pillar of strength, inspiration, encouragement and love. From the very beginning of one’s life, the family played a very important role in the overall development of the child – his personality, interpersonal relations, the way he saw himself, and his viewed of the world. The family then is not just a group of people who shared the same name and lived under the same roof. Rather, they are people who loved each other, interacted, and helped each other grew into better individuals.
As summarized by William Flexner (2005), parents performed crucial roles in the growth of a teenager. Youngsters need the feeling of confidence that comes from parental faith. Parents laid a foundation for moral and personality development of the child. They provided the emotional security, which is the very source of the child’s trust. The mother provided the mental and emotional, which are immensely important for the child’s mental and emotional growth and considered the heart of the family. The father, on the other hand, is the head and the strong man of the family. Parents have the basic responsibility of keeping the family intact.
In a perfect world, all children lived in happy homes with two loving, doting parents who are comfortable both financially and emotionally. In the poem entitled “Children Learn what they Live”, by Dorothy Law Nolte (2008), the author pointed out that every child learns what he experiences, does if the