No family autonomy is henceforth to be secured by fiat of law enthroning one "head" as the legal despot or economic ruler.

The family must be democratized in that sense in which each individual within its bond shall be sustained in seeking and in maintaining the conditions of personality.

No one human being to live solely for others' service or to have his or her value estimated in terms of contribution to other lives, but all to seek the utmost perfection of individual life as a contribution to the common life; this is the democratic ideal.
=The Family as an Aid to Spiritual Democracy.=--There seems to be no other inherited institution in which this spiritual essence of democracy can be so clearly and so well realized as it may be and to-day often is in the private monogamic family.

The permanent and successful family offers a unique centre of personal development at the heart of all other social groups.

Founded as it is in selective affection, and in aim at least permanently secure, it offers a refuge in every distress and a help in every trouble of each of its members.
There was never a time when such a mutual resistance of a small and intimate group to the complex pressure of the world upon each individual life was more sorely needed.