YOUCAT Question n. 370 – Part II. Why should the State protect and promote families?
(Youcat
answer - repeated) The welfare and future of a State depend on the ability of
the smallest unit within it, the family, to live and develop.
A deepening through CCC
(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).
Reflecting and meditating
(Youcat comment) No State has the right to intrude on the
basic cell of society, the family, by its regulations or to question its right
to exist. No State has the right to define the family differently, for the
family’s commission comes from the Creator. No State has the right to deprive
the family of its fundamental functions, especially in the area of education.
On the contrary, every State has the duty to support families with its
assistance and to ensure that its material needs are met.
(CCC Comment)
(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).
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