Parents Must Not Neglect Their Responsibility to Their Children
Mormon Doctrine / Teachings
"Parents are responsible to provide for their children. . . ."We are to look after their physical, their spiritual, and their emotional needs. The Book of Mormon teaches, 'Ye will not suffer your children that they go hungry, or naked; neither will ye suffer that they transgress the laws of God, and fight and quarrel one with another, and serve the devil, who is the master of sin, or who is the evil spirit which hath been spoken of by our fathers, he being an enemy to all righteousness' (Mosiah 4:14)."
-- Boyd K. Packer, "Children," Ensign, May 2002, 8