ABSTRACT
Institutions are created in order to regulate social life and to aid human activity. Their existence is the product of sociopolitical activity and the main purpose underpinning their creation and maintenance is to enhance human life as suffused in social relations. Accordingly, norms are ‘in politics’, but are also a reflection of rules of life. They represent a vision of things from above but at their centre lays an intelligible plan to facilitate human flourishing, that is, to serve human beings in their relations. One such rule of life is the founding of a family and the protection of the family unit.
