"HUSBAND AND WIFE have a solemn responsibility to love and care for each other and for their children. "Children are an heritage of the Lord" (Psalms 127:3). Parents have a sacred duty to rear their children in love and righteousness, to provide for their physical and spiritual needs, to teach them to love and serve one another, to observe the commandments of God and to be law-abiding citizens wherever they live. Husbands and wives—mothers and fathers—will be held accountable before God for the discharge of these obligations.
"THE FAMILY is ordained of God. Marriage between man and woman is essential to His eternal plan. Children are entitled to birth within the bonds of matrimony, and to be reared by a father and a mother who honor marital vows with complete fidelity. Happiness in family life is most likely to be achieved when founded upon the teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ. Successful marriages and families are established and maintained on principles of faith, prayer, repentance, forgiveness, respect, love, compassion, work, and wholesome recreational activities. By divine design, fathers are to preside over their families in love and righteousness and are responsible to provide the necessities of life and protection for their families. Mothers are primarily responsible for the nurture of their children. In these sacred responsibilities, fathers and mothers are obligated to help one another as equal partners. Disability, death, or other circumstances may necessitate individual adaptation. Extended families should lend support when needed."
In some selective teachings from talks "To the Mothers in Zion" many Apostles and Prophets talked about important things women need to know.
Elder Quentin L. Cook stated: "Recent studies find there is deterioration in devotion to marriage, with a decrease in the number of adults being married. For some, marriage and family are becoming 'a menu choice rather than a principle of our society.'"
Elder Quentin L. Cook
President Gordon B. Hinckley stated: "The greatest job that any mother will ever do will be in nurturing, teaching, lifting, encouraging, and rearing her children in righteousness and truth. Non other can adequately take her place."
President Gordon B. Hinckley
President Ezra Taft Benson said: "Mothers who enjoy good health, have your children and have them early. And, husbands, always be considerate to your wives in the bearing of children." He later continues, "The deepest joys and blessings in life are associated with family, parenthood, and sacrifice." Later he states: "Mothers in Zion, your God-given roles are so vital to your own exaltation and to the salvation and exaltation of your family. A child needs a mother more than all the things money can buy. Spending time with your children is the greatest gift of all."
President Ezra Taft Benson
Now let's go to quote for the men. In President Ezra Taft Benson's talk "To the Fathers in Israel" he stated: "Fathers, yours is an eternal calling from which you are never released. Callings in the Church, as important as they re, by their very nature are only for a period of time, and then an appropriate release takes place. But a father's calling is eternal, and its importance transcends time. It is a calling for both time and eternity."
In Elder Dallin H. Oaks talk "Priesthood Authority in the Family and the Church" he said: " Chruch callings are always temporary, but family relationships are permanent."
Elder Dallin H. Oaks
Dallin H. Oaks also quoted President Spencer W. Kimball: "When we speak of marriage as a partnership, let us speak of marriage as a full partnership. We do not want our LDS women to be silent partners or limited partners in the eternal assignment! Please be a contributing and full partner."
President Spencer W. Kimball
Elder Dallin H. Oaks in a different talk called "Keys and Authority of the Priesthood" he mentions a quote by President Joseph F. Smith about what the priesthood is: "...the power of God delegated to man by which man can act in the earth for the salvation of the human family."
Dallin H. Oaks said: "Whoever exercises priesthood authority should forget about their rights and concentrate on their responsibilities." He continues later: "The greatest power God has given to His sons cannot be exercised without the companionship of one of His daughters, because only to His daughters has God given the power 'to be a creator of bodies... so that God's design and the Great Plan might meet fruition.'"
He quotes President Reuben J. Clark's words: "This is the place of our wives and of our mothers in the Eternal Plan. They are not bearers of the Priesthood; they are not charged with carrying out the duties and functions of the Priesthood; nor are they laden with its responsibilities; they are builders and organizers under its power, and partakers of its blessings, possessing the complement of the Priesthood powers and possessing a function as divinely called, as eternally important in its place as the Priesthood itself."
President Reuben J. Clark
In the talk "Mothers Who Know" by Sister Julie B. Beck she stated: "The responsibility mothers have today has never required more vigilance. More than any time in the history of the world, we need mothers who know. Children are being born into a world where they 'wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places' (Ephesians 6:12). However, mothers need not fear. When mothers know who they are and who God is and have made covenants with Him, they will have great power and influence of good on their children."
Sister Julie B. Beck
She continues: "Mothers who know desire to bear children...Mothers who know honor sacred ordinances and covenants...Mothers who know are nurturers....Mothers who know are leaders. In equal partnership with their husbands, they lead a great and eternal organization..Mothers who know are always teachers...Mothers who know do less. They permit less of what will not bear good fruit eternally. They allow less media in their homes, less distraction, less activity that draws their children away from their home. Mothers who know are willing to live on less and consume less of the world's goods in order to spend more time with their children - more time eating together, more time working together, more time reading together, more time talking, laughing, singing, and exemplifying."
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