Answering Key Questions About the Family: Free eBook

Homeschooling provides a unique atmosphere in which to raise a family.  It provides an atmosphere that encourages men to be men, wives to be wives, and one in which children are allowed to be children.  Of course, the example we live out before our children “is what most affects them.”

In this day and age, with a dearth of role models, it is difficult to begin to know where to start when it comes to living as a family.  Answering Key Questions About the Family, a free 14-page download from Grace to You ministries, addresses these concerns from a Scriptural point of view.

In a study conducted several years ago, sociologists Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck of Harvard University identified several crucial factors in the development of juvenile delinquency. They created a test that can, with about 90 percent accuracy, predict future delinquency of children 5-6 years old. They listed four necessary factors in preventing juvenile delinquency. First, the father’s discipline must be firm, fair, and consistent.  Second, the mother must know where her children are and what they are doing at all times, and be with them as much as possible.  Third, the children need to see affection demonstrated between their parents, and from their parents to them.  And fourth, the family must spend time together as a unit.

Dr. John MacArthur, Answering Key Questions About the Family

And homeschooling is uniquely designed to provide an opportunity where all four can flourish. But homeschooling isn’t a panacea. It is a tool. That means we, by abiding in Christ and in His strength, must be the acting agent.

We cannot allow the world to press us into its mold of divorce, division, delinquency, and all that goes with the failure of the family. If Christians don’t have families that stay together, children who are raised in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, parents who love each other, and homes that are centered on Christ, we can never reach the world with the gospel.

Dr. John MacArthur, Answering Key Questions About the Family

As this short, direct and to-the-point paper admonishes us — these are the things we should cultivate, these are the things we should pursue…wholeheartedly.