Does the Church have a role in supporting,teaching the importance of parenthood?

I would like to hear your views.

I have written to numerous clergy members in the past and have had various responses, most are supportive of supporting grandparents but not actually getting involved.

One who shall be nameless, even suggested that grandfathers are often involved in abuse in families...... I can't comment as it would be censored.

That sort of remark, in my humble opinion ,just shows where some members of the clergy are getting it so wrong. How can that attitude bring people together?

I believe that we are talking about a complete cultural change as far as family breakdown and non contact is concerned,we need to be teaching very young children the importance of relationships and the responsibility to us all when we have children and respect of family life.

Relationships today are very different, we can no longer assume that two people will fall in love,get married and have children.

Children can be as a result of a one night stand, but the children still deserve the same rights as if they were born into a 'conventional' family unit.

They still have two parents,grandparents, aunts and uncles.

The question as I said at the beginning, how can the Church take this forward?

Jane