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Home teaching program protects families. The priesthood home teaching program can become a huge umbrella under which all the people of the Church may huddle for protection from the storms of adversity, sin, crime, delinquency, carelessness in activity, and immorality; but, of course, like an ordinary umbrella, if it is leaky and is not whole, stretched silk will be little protection.
When the home teachers go into every home and motivate parents, especially fathers, to teach their children by example and verbal teaching, can it be conceived that there will need to be penal institutions, divorce courts, special counseling service? Will there be need for reformatories, courts, and jails? ...
When home teachers serve their few families as faithfully and as continuously as their bishops do their many families; when home teachers live the commandments near perfection; when they enter into every phase of the life of their charges; then will Satan be bound. ...
Blessed will be the day when all home teachers, those working on the missionary, genealogical, and the welfare and all programs, become home teachers in every sense of the word, looking after every facet of the lives of their families -- spiritual, temporal, financial, moral, marital. That will be the happy day! The great umbrella is available. It will protect no one from the storm, the tempest, the danger unless it is spread.
Source: Edward L. Kimball, ed. The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1982. 524.
Special care is taken to ensure that military members don't stray from the fold.
Of course, missionary efforts are stressed.