Responsibilities of Conception (2): The Responsibility To Train

We had a sociology class when I was in college in which we spent much time belaboring the question of what is the chief characteristic (we called it mode) of the various institutions in society. Concerning marriage, for instance, what is its chief characteristic? Is it spiritual or biological or psychical or social or what? Without getting deeply involved in the various social spheres, for this article we must begin by distinguishing, as does the Bible, between marriage and the family as...