Religious Education in the Family

by Henry Frederick Cope

III. Topics for Discussion

1. The tendency toward community life illustrated in the schools, amusement parks, and hotel life. Remembering the ultimate purpose of the family, how far is communal life desirable?

2. Does the apartment or tenement building furnish a suitable condition for the higher purposes of the family?

3. Is it possible to restore to the home some of the benefits lost by present factory consolidation of industry?

4. What can take the place of the old household arts and of those which are now passing?

5. What steps should be taken to secure to the family a larger measure of the time in terms of occupation of the parents?

6. What are the important things to contend for in this institution? Why should we expect change in the form of the home and what are the features which should not be changed?

[2] Figures taken from C. W. Votaw, Progress of Moral and Religious Education in the American Home, 1911.

[3] A. J. Todd, Primitive Family and Education, p. 21. A most valuable and suggestive book.

[4] Cited by Todd, p. 21.