CHAPTER I.
THE FAMILY "The family is the heart's fatherland; the fatherland is the cradle of humanity."-- MAZZINI.
"The family has two functions; as a smaller group it affords opportunity for eliciting qualities of affection and character which cannot be displayed in a larger group; and in the second place it is a training for future members of the larger group in the qualities of disposition and character which are essential to citizenship.

Marriage converts an attachment between man and woman into a deliberate, permanent, responsible, intimate union for a common end of mutual good.

Modern society requires that the husband and wife contemplate lifelong companionship, and the affection between husband and wife is enriched by the relation of parents to the children which are their care.

The end of the family is not economic profit but mutual aid and the continuance and progress of the race."-- PROFESSOR TUFTS, in _Ethics_, by Dewey and Tufts.
=Social Work and Family Conservation.=--"By whatever name they may be called, the most essential elements of social work are those which seek to conserve the family life; to strengthen or supplement the home; to give children in foster homes or elsewhere the care of which tragic misfortune has deprived them in their natural homes; to provide income necessary in the proper care of their children; to restore broken homes; to discover and, if possible, remove destructive influences which interfere with normal home life and the reasonable discharge of conjugal and parental obligations.

The institutions which exist for the benefit of those individuals who have no home or who need care of a kind that cannot well be supplied in the home, only emphasize the importance of conserving family life when its essential elements are present."-- EDWARD T.DEVINE.
"Human nature has achieved the consciousness that existence has an aim.