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The premier professional organization in the U.S. for Family Life Educators, the National
Council on Family Relations (NCFR), explains Family Life Education this way: “Family Life
Education is the educational effort to strengthen individual and family life through a family
perspective. The objective of Family Life Education is to enrich and improve the quality of
individual and family life.” Parenting classes, pre-marriage education, marriage enrichment
programs, and family financial planning courses are a few examples of this human
development profession. These formal programs are a relatively recent phenomenon.
However, Family Life Education has existed informally throughout history � with marriage
And child-rearing counsel passed from generation to generation as well as by written
Information in ancient writings, mythology and religious scripture.
“Family has always been at the foundation of Indian society, and even contemporary people
Continue to take pride in the centrality of family life. But, the fast pace and all-embracing
Socio-political and economic changes in recent years are having a significant impact on
individuals and families. In the age of electronic media, the Indian family is being exposed to
ideas, ideals and lifestyles that are challenging the structure and stability of family as a
social institution. Indian families are not well prepared or equipped to face the competitive
and challenging world of today. Either, they are lacking correct information or receiving
misinformation from dubious sources that are doing more harm than good. Young people
are exposed to an entirely new pattern of living and a new set of mores, values and
standards that are being widely accepted but which stand in contrast to those which were
promoted by their parents and grandparents.
(iii) Aggression and Violence
Violence is heterogeneous. Physical violence can be impulsive, reactive or defensive; or it
can be predatory, remorseless aggression. Violent behaviors can be related to intoxication
from alcohol or psychosis or other neuropsychiatry conditions (e.g., dementia, traumatic
head injury). Violent acts may be the result of personal (Oklahoma City bombing) or a
cultural (political terrorism) belief systems. Violence can be sexualized (rape) or directed at a
specific victim (domestic violence) or at a specific group (e.g., African-Americans,
homosexuals, Jews).
Aggression is not violence. An aggressive person may not be violent. Aggression is a
behavior characterized by verbal or physical attack, yet it may be appropriate and self-
protective or destructive and violent. The complex set of behaviors r recognized as
aggression has been studied in man and animals for many years. Thousands of studies
have examined various aspects of the neurobiology of aggression — and the summed result
is a better understanding of, simply, the neurobiology of aggressive behaviors within specific
contexts, (typically animal populations in experimental conditions). Unfortunately, these
insights have resulted in few advances in clinical practice or public policy related to domestic
or community violence. Why? Because the complexity of violence means that there is a
complexity of neurobiology. The neurobiology of aggression, studied in the lab, leads to little
insight into the neurobiology of racism or misogyny — or anti-Semitism. Ironically, many
violent behaviors are the result of a defensive response to perceived aggression. The
neurobiology of fear, therefore, holds as many important clues to prevention and treatment
interventions related to violence as the neurobiology of aggression. The neurobiology of
hate — or ideology — remain unstudied -yet as surely as there are neurobiological mediators
of aggression, there are neurobiological mediators of ideology.
(iv) Functions and Purposes of Marriage
The primary function of a family is that of reproducing society, which also includes
reproducing and perpetuating the concept of family, even among those who don�t have
children.
The historical and traditional assumption in the socially approved concept of family is
that it is an institution that exists as being essential for the continuation of creating,
nourishing and perpetuating life within a protective society, which goal cannot be realized
without the birth, nurture, training and education of children.
The family also ensures the survival of the family members by providing the protective
aspect of the �herd� instinct in human beings which provides safety of its members by
polarizing into groups. This security also promotes sharing work and property, mutual
emotional support, and the birth, growth and nurturing of children.
The head of the household is now seen as more of a shared responsibility assumed by
the man and the woman, or siblings, if that�s the case. A single parent is the sole head of the
household.
Within this family unit, children have an environment, in which they have favorable physical,
social and emotional development within acceptable social norms. Single parent families,
however, are at a tremendous disadvantage because of the lack of observable male and
female gender roles by children in the family, if that is the case. The same may be said of
families where siblings are the heads of the household.
(v) Family Planning Services
Family planning is the planning of when to have children, and the use of birth control and
other techniques to implement such plans. Other techniques commonly used include
sexuality education, prevention and management of sexually transmitted infections, pre-
conception counseling and management, and infertility management.
Family planning is sometimes used as a synonym for the use of birth control, though it often
includes more. It is most usually applied to a female-male couple who wish to limit the
number of children they have and/or to control the timing of pregnancy (also known as
spacing children).
Family planning services are defined as “educational, comprehensive medical or social
activities which enable individuals, including minors, to determine freely the number and
spacing of their children and to select the means by which this may be achieved.”
At least 200 million women want to use safe and effective family planning methods, but are
unable to do so because they lack access to information and services or the support of their
husbands and communities. And more than 50 million of the 190 million women who
become pregnant each year have abortions. Many of these are clandestine and performed
under unsafe conditions.
Additionally, A “organizational leadership degree” can help you become a proficient
communicator and will make you a very good Family Life Educator.