ABSTRACT
The Family is the foundation of the social edifice. But for its stability and well-being neither Society nor the State could exist. “If,” say the Rabbins, “ a man sin against those of his own household, he will inevitably come to sin against his neighbour.” Parents and children, husband and wife, brothers and sisters, master and servant, are bound together by an organic tie. Thus the good parent will subject his child to a continuous and systematic discipline, one which errs neither on the side of undue severity nor of harmful laxity. The child owes duties to his parents. So important are those duties, that they are deemed worthy of a place in the Decalogue. Husband and wife, parent and child, are not the only members of the family upon whom obligations devolve. The husband and the wife should choose each other with due regard to the higher ends that marriage has been designed to fulfil.
