Is the Family DOOMED? Part 2

Nothing can be more important than to seek to bring to the home some of the responsibilities with which other organisations such as school and church are today burdened. True is the suggestion that church and school have kind of undertaken to do that which the home must largely do. The teacher in church and school may supplement the effort of the parent but cannot and may not be asked to perform the work of parents. 

Another quite obviousthought is that conflicts arise between parents and children not during the time of the child's infancy or early childhood but in the days of adolescence and early adulthood. The real differences come to pass when child and parent meet on terms and conditions which seem to indicate physical and intellectual equality or its approach. Though the processes of parental guidance are not to be postponed until the stage of bodily and mental equivalence has been reached but that the conflicts are not begun until what is or is imagined to be the maturity of the child raises the whole problem of self-determination. The latter is a problem not of infants and juveniles but of the mature and maturing.