Objectives and Importance of Family Life Education

Objectives of family life education
In simple terms, family life education is an educational process that helps in developing physical, social, emotional and moral character of people in relation to the sociocultural aspects of the society. Family life education has flowing major objectives.

• To help married couples to have fewer number of children.
• To help the youth in learning how to deal with physical, emotional and social changes faced in the process of growing up.
• To provide counseling services to the couples planning to have children.
• To help the youth in learning how to establish and maintain satisfying relationships with members of the family, with friends and other whom they come into contact with.
• To help in the protection and promotion of child and maternal health.
• To create favorable environment for population control programmes.
• To mobilize youths to spread population education among the people of community.

Importance of family life education
The importance of family life education is summed up in the following points:

• Family life education helps the young people to solve family problems. 
• It helps the youth in their growing stage to know about the social, emotional and physical changes that take place in this stage.
• It develops the knowledge about different roles, function and maintenance of family.
• It provides knowledge about maintaining good relationship among the members of the family and other people of the society. It helps to make the family happy and prosperous.
• It develops the knowledge, values and the skills, which are necessary for adulthood, marriage and parenthood as well as for participation in community life.
• It helps to deal with the changes in the adolescents' lives in their society.
• It helps them to make wise decision and communicate effectively with others about all matters concerning the social behavior. It makes people aware that they are becoming sexually mature and leads them to understand the sex attitudes and behaviors.