Family life education is that process of education that helps in the overall development of qualities and attitudes on which successful life of the family members like physical, social, psychological, moral dimensions and emotional development.
Family life education is the formal and informal way of developing boys’ and girls’ knowledge, attitude, and skills to improve their qualitative life and prepare them for responsible parenthood in the future. There is the majority of joint families in Nepal.
Family life education not only consults with the physiology of reproduction, automatic change, human sexual development, and sexual behavior but also focuses on assisting people in developing the ability to understand themselves and the society in which they live to learn and think individually. The rationales of family life education in the Nepalese lifestyle are:
- Family life education helps young people to solve family problems.
- Family life education helps in making the family happy and prosperous.
- Family life education enables newly married couples and parents to fulfill their responsibility successfully and effectively.
- Family life education provides young people and adult’s awareness.
- Family life education helps to face normal bodily changes at a growing age such as mental, physical, and emotional changes.
- Family life education gives knowledge about available services and communication with services.
- Family life education helps them to inform about skills that will help individuals and groups to be aware.
- Family life education helps boys and girls to understand the relationship between boys and girls.
- Family life education helps them to know and feel secondary sex characteristics.
- Family life education helps them to know about growth and development, menstruation, night emission, reproduction, ovulation, fertilization, conception, choosing partners career advice, etc.
