Revisiting Family Values: A Pathway Towards Societal Stability

The paper examines the family, regarded as society’s oldest and most important social institution. Family responsibilities may include providing guidance, support and a sense of belonging to its members. This was basically the case with the traditional family where children learnt the values of discipline, hard work, respect for elders and constituted authority, responsibility, integrity and credibility. Indeed, a good family guarantees a god society and a good society would guarantee a god and stable nation. With modernity and industrialization, the role of the family seemed to have waned considerably as majority of parents have had less time for their children and seemed to have delegated most of their responsibilities to nannies and house-helps due to work commitment. The paper affirms that the end results have been an increase in juvenile delinquency, high levels of criminality, drug abuse and addiction, high rate of promiscuity, disregard for elders and constituted authority, the get rich quick syndrome, disregard for hard work, corruption and a lack of responsibility, integrity and credibility. This paper therefore examines the situation critically and proffers solutions on how best to revert the situation before the society derails completely.