458. What are the duties that society has toward the family? (part 1)
(Comp 458) Society, while respecting the principle of subsidiarity, has the duty to
support and strengthen marriage and the family. Public authority must respect,
protect and foster the true nature of marriage and the family, public morality,
the rights of parents, and domestic prosperity.
“In brief”
(CCC 2250) "The well-being of
the individual person and of both human and Christian society is closely bound
up with the healthy state of conjugal and family life" (GS 47 § 1).
To deepen and
explain
(CCC 2209) The family must be
helped and defended by appropriate social measures. Where families cannot
fulfill their responsibilities, other social bodies have the duty of helping
them and of supporting the institution of the family. Following the principle
of subsidiarity, larger communities should take care not to usurp the family's
prerogatives or interfere in its life.
Reflection
(CCC 2211) The political community
has a duty to honor the family, to assist it, and to ensure especially: - the
freedom to establish a family, have children, and bring them up in keeping with
the family's own moral and religious convictions; - the protection of the
stability of the marriage bond and the institution of the family; - the freedom
to profess one's faith, to hand it on, and raise one's children in it, with the
necessary means and institutions; - the right to private property, to free
enterprise, to obtain work and housing, and the right to emigrate; - in keeping
with the country's institutions, the right to medical care, assistance for the
aged, and family benefits; - the protection of security and health, especially
with respect to dangers like drugs, pornography, alcoholism, etc.; - the freedom
to form associations with other families and so to have representation before
civil authority (Cf. FC 46). [IT CONTINUES]
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