The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Home and family=== {{See also|Marriage in the LDS Church|Gender minorities and the LDS Church}} The church and its members consider marriage and [[family]] highly important, with emphasis placed on large, nuclear families.<ref name =Encyclopedia.com/> In 1995, the church's First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve issued "[[The Family: A Proclamation to the World]]", which asserts the importance of a heterosexual, nuclear family. Its intended audience was not only for its own members but to "responsible citizens and officers of government everywhere". The proclamation defined marriage as a union between one man and one woman and stated that the family unit is "central to the Creator's plan for the eternal destiny of His children." The document further says that "[[gender]] is an essential characteristic of individual [[Premortal life (Latter Day Saints)|premortal]], mortal, and eternal identity and purpose," that the father and mother have [[Complementarianism|differing roles]] as "equal partners" in raising children, that "children are entitled to birth within the bonds of matrimony", and that successful marriages and happy families, are most likely established when founded upon the teachings of Jesus Christ. <ref>{{Cite book |last1=Petrey |first1=Taylor G.|author1-link=Taylor G. Petrey |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e6XgDwAAQBAJ |title=The Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender |last2=Hoyt |first2=Amy |date=April 30, 2020 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |isbn=978-1-351-18158-7 |pages=11, 61, 435}}</ref><ref name="Gay Rights"/>{{rp|52โ54}}<ref>{{Cite news |last=Fletcher Stack |first=Peggy |author-link=Peggy Fletcher Stack |date=October 14, 2015 |title=After 20 years, Mormonism's family proclamation is quoted, praised, parsed and politicked |newspaper=[[The Salt Lake Tribune]] |url=https://www.sltrib.com/news/mormon/2015/10/14/after-20-years-mormonisms-family-proclamation-is-quoted-praised-parsed-and-politicked/ |access-date=June 26, 2023}}</ref> The proclamation also promotes specific roles essential to maintaining the strength of the family unitโthe traditional roles of a husband and father as the family's breadwinner and those of a wife and mother as a nurturing caregiver. Nonetheless, it acknowledges that "circumstances may necessitate individual adaptation" and that spouses are "obligated to help one another as equal partners" in fulfilling those roles. It's also charges both parents with the duties of childrearing. It concludes by inviting it's audience to "promote those measures designed to maintain and strengthen the family as the fundamental unit of society".<ref name =Encyclopedia.com>{{cite web|publisher=[[Encyclopedia.com]]|title=Mormons|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/philosophy-and-religion/christianity/protestant-denominations/mormons|access-date=June 22, 2023 |date=June 8, 2018|archive-date=March 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307052950/https://www.encyclopedia.com/philosophy-and-religion/christianity/protestant-denominations/mormons|url-status=live}}</ref> Senior church leaders have continued to emphasize conservative teachings on marriage and gender to the present time.<ref>[https://www.axios.com/local/salt-lake-city/2023/10/02/mormon-general-conference-gender-marriage-eternity Mormon leaders double down on gender and marriage. Axios Salt Lake City. October 2, 2023. Accessed October 5, 2023.]</ref> LDS Church members are encouraged to set aside one evening each week, typically Monday, to spend together in "[[Family Home Evening]]" (FHE), which typically consists of gathering as a family to study the faith's gospel principles, and other family activities. Daily family prayer is also encouraged.<ref name =Encyclopedia.com/> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page