I'd like to talk about Family from two different perspectives. The Parental Perspective and the Member Perspective.
The biological parent The responsible adult that provides daily food, housing, care until the child is an adult A Step-parent An Adult living in a household that is raising children? Someone else who plays a sigificant role in raising a child? Answer, All of the above are sigificant parental figures
Raising Children is an extreamly important job in Common Life Theology. It is the Most Important Job. The greater Life has invested a portion of the future of all Life into each child. From that perspective, there is no job greater than raising children. In this belief system Children are the future of Life itself. Who they become and how much they develop will determine the future of the Ocean lf Life that all is drawn from.
That being said, a child-rasing household is to be centered on raising the best, healthiest, whole, best educated and wisest children possible. Parents are to wrap their lives around raising children, not their own wants, desires, interests, carreers, etc. PEOPLE WHO WANT TO SPEND THEIR LIVES FOCUSED ON SOMETHING ELSE BESIDES CHILDREN SHOULD NOT BECOME PARENTS. AND THIS SHOULD BE OKAY AND NOT A TOPIC FOR PRESSURE OR JUDGEMENT. THIS WAY, PEOPLE DON'T HAVE CHILDREN FOR THE "WRONG" REASONS.
This is the whole point of having different kinds of marriages. People who do not want to make that committment to child-raising should have an alternate path that is recognized and respected for what it is.
Marriages/households that focus on raising children are different status than marriages that do not. Some of our best and brightest should be drawn into child raising, just as into other endeavors. In addition, those who are not well enough put together themselves, should not be parents.
Remember humans are life processors. Our purpose here is to take less evolved forms of energy and convert them into more evolved forms. Improving the child-rasing environment is the single greatest thing we can do to advance the cause of Life.
Shifting better-quality people into running families will probably slow down technical research and advancement. This is a good thing. If anything, the pace of advancement has far outpaced our human ability to responsibly use that advancement. We as a species would do very well to spend less time pushing the frontiers and more time developing better quality people to live with the technology we have.
Remember Humans are only partially sentient/aware. We have proven time and time again that we will find just as many, if not more bad ways to use technology than good ways. Spending a few generations improving humanity and the Soul of all Life before gaining more technology would be time well spent. It would serve us all and all of life better than the latest timesaving invention.
True wealth should be measured by the quality of children a household produces. True charity should be measured by improving a child's life and/or a child's environment.
This doctrine is meant to change the way society is structured. Instead of estabilishing a business, or govenrment that would last for ages, humans should strive to build child-rearing Houses that gain prestige for raising children into high functioning adults generation after generation. This means that Family based marriages could last longer than a lifetime. Perhaps Family based marriages could sometimes become Line-Families, where newer generations are married in to continue the tradition.
[As a side note, this means that non-family marriages could also evolve into lines of a different kind. Perhaps you have a line or guild or something that does the farming, the fishing, the shoe-making, the research and developing.]
This concept of Line-Marriage or Line-Family is great for preserving knowledge, skill, capital. Instead of each marriage/family having to build their own everything from scratch, they can marry into an existing tradition and continue it.
This concept would change Marriage itself. Currently marriage is based on how well the married people get along. This concept of marriage would add additional considerations. Along with how well people got along, there would be the added motivation of a common purpose, a common work.
Changing the structure of marriage/family means changing what it means to be a member of such a marriage/family. Yes it is assumed one would stay in such a marriage/family/line as long as one could. Yes it would be important for the individual to bend and conform to the group. Members who upset/break the marriage/family/line should be released. Which should not be viewed as such a terrible thing. Often that may mean the person has changed enough that they should be in a different marriage/family/line.
So each member should be just as responsible for deciding if they are in the right marriage/family/line, as the marriage/family/line is interested in having the right people. Somehow this should be worked out that changing marriages/familes/lines is possible but rare.
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