Religious Education in the Family

by Henry Frederick Cope

The Place of the Family

A. J. Todd, The Family as an Educational Agency. Putnam, $2.00.

W. F. Lofthouse, Ethics and the Family. Hodder & Stoughton, $2.50.

J. B. Robins, The Family a Necessity. Revell, $1.25.

III. Topics for Discussion

1. Describe the changes within recent times in the conditions of the home, its work, housing, and supplies. How far have these changes affected the community of the family, the continuity of its personal relationships, and its religious service?

2. What are the fundamental causes of family disasters? Admitting that there are sufficient grounds for divorce in numerous instances, what other causes enter into the high number of divorces?

3. State in your own terms the ultimate reasons for the maintenance of a family.

4. What are the motives which would make people willing to bear the high cost of founding and conducting a home?

5. What points of emphasis does this study suggest in the matter of the education of public opinion?