CCC 2210

The importance of the family for the life and well-being of society¹³ Cf. GS 47 # 1. entails a particular responsibility for society to support and strengthen marriage and the family. Civil authority should consider it a grave duty "to acknowledge the true nature of marriage and the family, to protect and foster them, to safeguard public morality, and promote domestic prosperity."¹⁴ GS 52 # 2.