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

• If Husband and Wife Are Equal, What Does "Preside" Mean?
• Presiding Inside an Equal Partnership
• Surrogacy and the Mother a Child Loses
• Are My Dating Standards Too High?
• Becoming a Father Long Before You Have Children
• Children, and the Voices Telling You Not To
• Equal Worth, Distinct Strengths: Men and Women in Covenant Partnership
• God's Pattern for Marriage: Reflected in Heaven, Rooted in Creation
• If Men and Women Are Equal, Why Do Their Differences Matter?
• If Parents Love a Child, Why Does Their Gender Matter?
• Is Fatherhood Actually Worth Wanting?
• Rachel's Story: After the Stroke, I Had to Redefine My Role

Lessons

• Genders Are Equal but Different
• Gender Complementarity