3. Mention the special needs of young people in the family. 4. What are the difficulties in maintaining the friendship of our young people? 5. Have you ever seen evidences of the phase mentioned as aversion to parents? 6. What are some common mistakes of treating the subject of courtship? 7. What are the special social needs of young people? 8. What is the religious significance of the period of social awakening? 9. What are the special dangerous tendencies in public amusements? 10. How does the social instinct express itself in social service? 11. What of the relation of "wild oats" to directed work? 12. What may be done for vocational direction in the family? CHAPTER XVII THE FAMILY AND THE CHURCH If the family is engaged in the development of religious character through its life and organization, it ought somehow to find very close relations with the other great social institution engaged in precisely the same work, the church. Both churches and homes are agencies of religious education. In a state which separates the ecclesiastical and the civil functions, where freedom of conscience is fully maintained, these two are the only religious agencies engaged in education. As the family is the child's first society, so the local church should be the child's second, larger, wider society. The home constitutes the first social organization for life, the one in which growing lives prepare for the wider social living. Then should come the next forms of social organization, the school and the church, each grouping lives together and preparing them, by actual living, for wider circles of life. § 1. RELATIONS OF CHURCH AND HOME Many of the perplexing problems which arise in the family, as an institution, in respect to its relations to the church, and as to the developing relations of children to the church, would be largely solved if we could get an understanding of the fundamental relations of these two institutions. The institutional difficulties occur because these relations appear to be competitive. Here is the family with its interests in bread-winning, comforts, recreations, and pleasures, and on the opposite side, making apparently competing claims for money, time, interest, and service, stands the church. That is the picture unconsciously forming in many minds. There is more or less feeling that money given to the church is taken from the family and impoverishes it to that degree, that time given to the church is grudgingly spared from the pleasures of the home, that it is always a moot question which of the two institutions shall win in the conflict of interests.