Family Value as a Vital Tool for Sustainable Democracy and National Development: Counselling Implication

Abstract

The family no doubt serves as inculcating of values as well as a tool of socialization in any community. Also, a democratic society and a national development is the one that accommodate the freedom of thought and action of the individual as they will. This theoretical paper therefore attempts to discuss the relevance of family values as a tool for a sustainable democracy and development. It is expected that the family should serve as a vital tool for which democratic values be molded into any society including that of Nigeria. It presented the concept and functions of family values, emphasizing on Kolbergs' theory of moral reasoning; concepts of national development and democracy. Implications of value orientation, concept of counseling and implications for counseling, conclusion and recommendations. It also emphasizes how youths have ignorantly been use as a major constrain to democratic existence in Nigeria taken through the blinded role of youth in political robbery, ethnic conflicts, bomb-blast, killing, thuggery, rigging, kidnapping and recent boko-haram insurgence. The paper therefore makes vital recommendations among many others; the need to enrich developmental and democratic values and norms in the family, the teaching of morals/civic educations in homes, worship places, political gatherings, and families' traditions to enforced in political groups for good governance for sustainable democracy and national development.