We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way out.

Parents need all the help they can get. The strongest as well as the most fragile family requires a vital network of social supports.

Because it's not only that a child is inseparable from the family in which he lives, but that the lives of families are determined by the community in which they live and the cultural tradition from which they come.

But however the forms of family life have changed and the number expanded, the role of the family has remained constant and it continues to be the major institution through which children pass en route to adulthood.

Awareness has changed so that every act for children, every piece of legislation recognizes that children are part of families and that it is within families that children grow and thrive or don't.