Sentences with phrase «institution of the family»

The social institution of family is not an end in itself or an ultimate good.

And sex always implies such a purpose in procreation and its attendant institutions of family and political community.

Certainly undergraduates tend to be more intrigued by the «liberal» movement outside the more - or-less conservative institutions of family and religion.

In recent years, a tempest has broken out against the institution of the family.

Standard economic analysis (if it doesn't peer inside the institution of the family) overlooks the resulting inequality.

Surrounded by such places, and steeped in the principles of Catholic social teaching, the participants of the Seminar grapple with the monumental questions of our day: How, after a half - century of degradation, can the institution of the family, the bedrock of civil society, possibly bear the weight it must bear if freedom is to serve the common good?

In Rome, during the era in which the Good News of Jesus Christ was being preached, the institution of the family found itself in a grave crisis.

In this sense, the «traditional» family has no golden past.2 But during the final third of the twentieth century, the institution of the family did undergo a radical shift in form and function for reasons that social scientists still only partially understand.

Family courts were set up to help determine outcomes for any cases that relate to the institution of family.