Good husband-wife, parent-child relationships are a must in building the home.
  Satan has sought to destroy the home by attacking the divine order.  Roles have been replaced, redefined or left without definition. Today there are live-in lovers, homosexual

marriages, invitro and surrogate homes. 

    In many homes there is no head.   Instead of wives encouraging and helping their husbands to lead their families, in some cases they have taken over the homes.  In other homes, the men are missing altogether.  Too many husbands and fathers have neglected their responsibilities in the home.  Some are abusive and dictatorial and give little consideration to their family.

    Children do what they want.  Parents are afraid to punish them.  Their training has been turned over to the television or the YMCA. A visitor from the Orient was once asked what he thought was the most amazing thing about America?  "How well the parents obey their children," he answered.

    We need to return to God's design for the home. Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.  For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body.  Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.   Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave   Himself for it...  So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies; he who loves his wife loves himself.  For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord does the church...Children obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. "Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment with promise:  "that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth." (Eph. 5:22-25, 28-29; 6:1-4; also cf. Col. 3:18-21; 1 Pet 3:1-7)

    Until we get back to the divine order there will be no chance for a real home in the houses in which we live.