By carrying on family traditions and adhering to fundamental understandings of how a family should operate—when this is multiplied by millions of families—this is how you stabilize, perpetuate, and sustain culture. You live long in the land the Lord God has given you because you respect these traditions and you carry them on. It’s so vitally important to the strength of any culture that its child-rearing traditions are perpetuated from one generation to the next. Those child-rearing traditions in the final analysis define the culture.8
