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The Good of the Child — the Good of the Family, the Church and Society
The Good of the Child — the Good of the Family, the Church and Society

Author(s): Helena Hrehovà
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Social Sciences, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Sociology, Theology and Religion, Family and social welfare, Canon Law / Church Law
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: God; man; good; child; family; Church; society; human rights

Summary/Abstract: The article entitled “The Good of the Child — the Good of the Family, the Church and Society” deals with the fact that reminds people for many centuries that the child is a good in three aspects: for the family, the Church and society. The family is the first and irreplaceable form of human community. In the family, every person learns to love and to form him- or herself through moral-ethical education in harmonic relationship with other people. These are rational reasons why we should protect the traditional family against marginalization and interventions from government and state administration. Parents have a right to educate their own children and children have a right to have both parents — mother and father. In the Churche very child is a gift from God and living limb of Christ’s mystical body, therefore the Church has a duty to protect human life from conception to natural death. The child needs society and society needs children in order to function and have a future. Thus, the article stresses three convictions: human dignity is inviolable and sacred; with every person comes God’s blessing into the world; any attempt to separate man from God is the most tragic mistake of modern people.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 43-56
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: English