RESTRUCTURING THE FAMILY UNIT FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

This paper is primarily concerned with identifying those ways through which the family unit can be engaged in promoting its own survival and its possible use for the sustainable development of the society. The changes recorded around the issue of values are numerous and act as threats to the survival and stability of the family unit, hence there is the need to work out ways of promoting its survival. The major areas that have been identified in this paper are centered around values and mindset reorientation. Values, we know, are transmitted through multiple origins such as belief system, norms, interactions, customs, role playing, sanctions, language, socialization process etc. However, these values are presently misunderstood and practiced contrarily due to some environmental factors. The importance attached to developmental issues makes it necessary for these values to be revisited and be used as references for further building of a society that is obviously vulnerable to unimaginable vices of the society.