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strengthening families

The importance of families in building sustainable communities

Family is universally viewed as one of the essential institutions without which no society can function. The family may be viewed as a vital organ maintaining the health of the ‘body’ of society. The family does this through things like reproduction of the population, playing a key role in the primary socialization process, providing food and shelter and an emotional refuge for family members. In this way the family makes a major contribution to social stability, and the creation of a harmonious society.  It is within the family that children are socialised to acceptable  norms and values, which makes up the culture of society to which they belong. So, it is essentially through the family that each generation is replaced by the next; that children are born, socialized and cared for until they attain their independence; and that each generation fulfils its care responsibilities to minors, older persons, and the sick.

 “Families are social groups connected by kinship, marriage, adoption, or choice. Family members have clearly defined relationships, long-term commitments, mutual obligations and responsibilities, and a shared sense of togetherness. Families, in their many forms, are everywhere the primary providers of protection, support, and socialization for children and youth.”

Extracts from Mfesane "Family Approach" document.

SALT Alliance and a family approach

SALT Alliance is currently in a research and learning process to understand and apply a family-centred approach in their community work, one where the individual is viewed in his or her family context and where family is holistically strengthened as a unit of society. The idea of a family-centered approach does not presuppose a particular model of family or family life. For that reason the following definition of what a family is has been adopted from: “Families are social groups connected by kinship, marriage, adoption, or choice. Family members have clearly defined relationships, long-term commitments, mutual obligations and responsibilities, and a shared sense of togetherness. Families, in their many forms, are everywhere the primary providers of protection, support, and socialization for children and youth.”

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"The thief comes only in order to steal, kill, and destroy.

I have come in order that you might have life—life in all its fullness."

John 10:10,
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