Compiled by the Research Department of the Universal House of Justice, Bahá’í World Centre, January 1986
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Extracts From letters Written on Behalf of the Universal House of Justice to individual believers unless otherwise cited
68: That the first teacher of the child is the mother should not be startling,…
That the first teacher of the child is the mother should not be startling,
for the primary orientation of the infant is to its mother. This provision of
nature in no way minimizes the role of the father in the Bahá’í family.
Again, equality of status does not mean identity of function.
