Roles

What's at issue

The specific, defined responsibilities of each family member — father presiding in love and righteousness, providing necessities, and protecting; mother primarily responsible for nurture; children's responsibilities; how these roles fit together as a unified whole rather than competing claims.

Where it appears in the Proclamation

• Paragraph 4 — God's Design for Sexual Intimacy & Having Children
• Paragraph 7 — Marriage, Children & the Roles of Mothers and Fathers

Reading

• “A Woman is Someone Who is Born with Space for Another”
• People of the Proclamation: Caroline’s Story
• People of the Proclamation: Josephat’s Story from “Out of Africa”
• People of the Proclamation: Teresa’s Story
• What Does a Temple Marriage Sealing Actually Do?
• Equal in Worth, Different by Design

Lessons

• Genders Are Equal but Different
• Gender Complementarity