1. Family life

2. Types of Family: Extended

3. Nuclear Family

4. Single Parent Family

5. Reconstituted family

6. 2 Timothy 1:5
“I have been reminded of your sincere faith, which first lived in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice and , I am persuaded, now lives in you also”.
What does this quote from Timothy tell us about the responsibility that parent has for their children?

7. Colossians 3:18-21
“Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. Fathers, do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged”.

8. Exodus 20:12 “Honour you father and mother”
How would you behave if you ‘honoured’ your parents?

9. Genesis 1:24
“For this reason, a man will leave his mother and father and be united with his wife, and they will become one flesh’.
What does the quote suggest about how a person’s life should develop?

10. Christian Church
The Church believes the family to be ‘the original cell of social life.’
Family life is the place where children learn:
Moral values, the difference between right and wrong.
To honour God.
To make good use of the freedom they
are increasingly given.