| Encyclopedia article: Family Life (3218 words) |
 | The family is given great importance as it should form the basis of both the individual's spiritual development and happiness, and society's cohesion and advancement. |
| Perhaps the most significant Bahá'í teaching for family life, affecting families in all cultures, concerns the equality of men and women: first, in their relations to each other, the parents, and second, the impact of this teaching on children. |
| In a wider perspective, one could argue that in the past the family was primarily an economic unit, fostering the inequality of men and women. |
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