A child teaches what he can see at home.
His parents are his examples.
Sebastian Brant.  

    Leo Tolstoy once said: "A happy man is someone who is happy at home".  Everybody looks for a place where he needs not to be a jar, where he will not be deceived, where he feels calm and comfortable, where he can relax his soul. And I am sure everybody calls this place "home".
      In the life of everyone family occupies the special place. A child grows in family, and from the first years of life he masters the norms of life, peculiarities of human relations, absorbing from family both good and evil, the standards his family is characterized with. Becoming a grown man, the child adopts everything that is typical of his parents' family. In the family attitudes of child are regulated towards surrounding, in family he gets life experience and moral codes of conduct.
       What a child acquires during his childhood, he saves it for the rest of his life. The importance of family is conditioned by the fact that a child lives here during a meaningful period of life. And the positive influence of family on a personality of a child presupposes that nobody except the nearest members of the family - mother and father, grandparents, sisters and brothers loves and cares for him so much.
       Carrying out a social function, family forms personality depending on its cultural, social and spiritual level. Conditions in the family, habitation hygiene, features of life and fascination of the family - these all depend on its mode.
       Personality of a child is formed and educated foremost under the act of his parents. A great trade and skill of our parents consist not only of that to teach their children daily necessities such as drinking, eating, speaking and walking, but also to give them an idea of life and family as of spiritual value. Thus, the process of forming the bases of personality, relations and moral qualities are based foremost on domestic education.
       It is a well-known fact, that young age is the period of vital and professional self-determination of personality. This period of human life is characterized by the active transformation into personality, analysis of the origin and development of new meaningful psychological formations, the estimation of reality and surrounding people, the prognostication of social activity, planning the future and self-realization, and forming own pictures of the world and about himself.                            

Today the institute of family is being damaged. This happens because our young generation has stopped to esteem or simply is not able to recognize the real values of it. For instance, if many years ago the respect for adults was holy, or to live with your parents to the end of your life was usual, nowadays the picture has changed much. The living of both elder and younger generations together is unthinkable.  Doubtless nowadays young people are different, comparing with past generations. They have other values, dispositions, interests and passions – completely different. And they must never forget about the eternal family importance, traditions and culture, without which it’s not possible to form a full value family.

To get back to the point, home represents an important vital value for present-day youth. Pictures of young people about family and home are various and in most cases sooner deal with the psychological aspects of marriage-domestic relations, than with the social orientation.
      Being related to the modern youth, I can say that conscious loneliness and having no family living are not welcomed by the majority of young Russian population. And I am sure, both me and most young Russians think that the main values of domestic life are children and emotionally spiritual closeness of marriage partners.
     I consider the family to be an unshakeable value. Times, ages, standards and ideals change and pass, and only the family always remains an undisputable and essential part of our life. And only being a member of the family, a part of it we can become acquainted with ourselves.
I remember once reading these lines from some newspaper "Happiness is a personal idea for everybody as the dominative values are so various. Happiness in a family is another thing to dream about.”

    Unfortunately very often young people start a family with some myths in their heads. My head is not an exception.
P.S. Life "must go on". As for me, I dream to start my family one day and I am sure, I should make some reservations. They are the following:
 - I see my future husband to be a bread-winner, accountable for prosperity of our family.
 - As for my part in the family, I consider a woman to be a keeper of hearth.
 - We both will obviously be responsible and take an active part in the life of our family.
 - Deferential concern to the other member's aspiration and to making a career or self-developing   is to be welcomed.
 - We will always find time to chat with our child and even to amuse him, but in a proper way, of course.
 - I swear to be interested in my child's problems, to investigate his complications and to develop his skills and talent.
 - I hope I will be wise enough not to press upon my child, to allow him to take his own decisions, in the other way to esteem his rights.
  To sum these ideas up I would like to say: love your child sincerely and with all your heart, the rest will come.
     And I hope my decisions will be right. And if someone asks me what family for me is, my answer will be the following: family - is where you are loved; family - is your soul's light; family - is people you care of (for) ; family - is loving people who support each other in difficult times; family - is people who present warmth and concern, who require nothing in exchange; family - is a source of kindness, the place where you always want to come to; family - is the most important value and treasure in the world, first and for most; family - is faith, hope and love.