In the family we can find everything necessary to develop our love, our patients, our affection, to be able to instruct our children, to develop our patience, care, tender care for our children, fidelity with our wife … it is an excellent environment to be able to develop all those virtues, all those forms that are part of the characteristics of God: fidelity, respect, honesty, truthfulness, love, etc.

They are two fundamental truths:

We need to live as a family and,

In that family, it is where we can best expand on demonstrating our capacity to love others.

It takes us away from a selfish life. Because family life demands 24 hours a day, love. As a family you are not only seeing for yourself but also, you live for others; and the more you strive to give love to your family, the more you will move away from selfishness, you will stop thinking about yourself and you will think more about others.

The love and service to them will lead you to deny yourself many things, like those mothers who have to get up early and get out of bed because the baby is crying and needs a breast. Or the father who has to go to work, regardless of how the weather is, or despite being sick, tired.

Do not forget, one of the greatest problems humanity is having is the spiritual void that is, not finding meaning in life, because people are becoming more individualistic and more selfish. If we learned to love more, we would be thinking less about ourselves and we would not have so many problems.

We enjoy permanent commitments and the consequences of constant responsibility. In the family – like nowhere else – you will find constant demands, responsibilities that you have towards others and others towards you.

Being part of a family implies that you learn to be responsible, regardless of your position there, be a father, be a mother, be a child; there you must learn to love, and always fulfill your responsibility.

It helps us grow together. 
It means that we can be unanimous (feel the same, share the same vision). Fight together for a common goal, without anyone being left behind, that is, it is an environment where we are all moving forward together, we are all important, and we all take into account.

In this aspect is very important the role of parents, particularly of the male, who is the head of the household and one of its main tasks, is DIRECT. He must provide a vision to his family, showing them where to go so that each member has a well-defined purpose and knows where to go.

It teaches us to know what hierarchies are.
This is something very important, because the child who knows that dad is the boss at home (and when there is no dad, the boss is mom), learns to obey more easily, knows what is the subjection to an authority; so that tomorrow when they leave home, they know how to respect from a traffic signal to their teachers and seniors.

That is, living as a family provides a practical teaching to children about obedience. They learn that example at home because they observe and live the subjection: they see that dad has an order; they see that Mom has an order, that they as children have an order. And everyone learns together to respect other people.

When a child sees that, he manages – in school or at work – to have a very sociable and productive behavior, that is, they are not rude, haughty, or problematic, but mature, and socially related to others, whatever your level of the hierarchy.

That happens in the family. When you see that a son does not respect anything, does not respect any authority, there is a reason: at home, he was not taught respect, he was not taught the order of authority, he did not see it in his parents, nor did he experience it as a son.