Followings are the major objective of family life educations :

1. To develop knowledge regarding the concept of family, its roles and functions. Every individual both young and old should have proper knowledge and understanding of the concept of family, its roles and function.

The knowledge will help in individual to recognise the various tasks that need to be undertaken for the well-being and maintenance of the family.

2. Family life education aims at developing the ability to deal with family relationship and responsibility. Family life education helps in establishing and maintaining satisfying relationships with members of the family, with friends and with others whom they come into contact with in the context of family life.

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3. Family life education aims at developing life skills to cope with different situations. Family life education develops the knowledge, values and skills, necessary for adult life, marriage, parenthood, participation in the social life of the community.

It also helps in communicating effectively with others and in making wise decisions about all matters related to family life, personal relationships and various memberships of the community.

4. Family life education aims at helping in understanding and coping with changes in one’s own life and changes in the society. It helps an individual to understand and cope with changes in the adolescent life and with the society in which they live; for example, the breaking down of traditional social structures, the changing roles of men and women, marriage practices etc.

5. Family life education aims at developing knowledge about physiological processes of one’s own body. It also creates an awareness regarding proper age of marriage, sex and proper time for reproduction, the consequences to adolescent pregnancies and parenting and of alternatives to pregnancies and contraception.

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6. Family life education seeks to create responsible and useful young citizens.

7. It develops realisation of the role of family in promotion of civil society and duties towards the community, nation and humanity.