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The Family: A Proclamation to the World
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Bibliography
The Family Proclamation
Russell M. Nelson, “Faith and Families,” Ensign (March 2007).
Dallin H. Oaks, “The Plan and the Proclamation,” General Conference October 2017.
Henry B. Eyring, “The Teachings of ‘The Family: A Proclamation to the World,’” New Era (September 2015).
M. Russell Ballard, “The Sacred Responsibilities of Parenthood,” BYU Devotional (August 19, 2003).
Bruce C. Hafen, “The Proclamation on the Family: Transcending the Cultural Confusion,” Liahona (August 2015).
Henry B. Eyring, “The Family,” BYU Devotional (November 5, 1995).
“Family,” Gospel Topics.
Book of Mormon Central, “What Does the Book of Mormon Teach about Families? (Mosiah 25:12),” KnoWhy 382 (November 16, 2017).
Book of Mormon Central. “Where Did Joseph Smith Get His Teachings on the Family? (3 Nephi 18:21).” KnoWhy 285 (March 10, 2017).
Book of Mormon Central, “How Can the Book of Mormon Strengthen Marriages and Families? (Jacob 3:7),” KnoWhy 302 (April 19, 2017).
Brent L. Top and Michael A. Goodman, eds., By Divine Design (Salt Lake City and Provo, UT: Deseret Book and BYU Religious Studies Center, 2014).
Daniel K Judd and Jacob D. Judd, “The Doctrines of Eternal Marriage and Eternal Families,” in Foundations of the Restoration: Fulfillment of the Covenant Purposes, eds. Craig James Ostler, Michael Hubbard MacKay, and Barbara Morgan Gardner (Salt Lake City and Provo, UT: Deseret Book and BYU Religious Studies Center, 2016), 245–268.
E. Jeffrey Hill and David C. Dollahite, “Faithful Fathering,” in By Divine Design: Best Practices for Family Success and Happiness, ed. Brent L. Top and Michael A. Goodman (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2014), 193–221.
Jenet Jacob Erickson, “Motherhood: Restoring Clarity and Vision in a World of Confusing Messages,” in By Divine Design: Best Practices for Family Success and Happiness, ed. Brent L. Top and Michael A. Goodman (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center; Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2014), 161–192.
Richard G. Wilkins, “The Principles of the Proclamation: Ten Years of Hope,” BYU Studies Quarterly 44, no. 3 (2005): 5–37.