Family education as mentioned in this law refers to promoting the comprehensive and healthy growth of minors.

Article 1 This Law is formulated in order to carry forward the fine tradition of the Chinese nation of attaching importance to family education, guide the whole society to attach importance to family, family education and family style, enhance family happiness and social harmony, and cultivate socialist builders and successors with all-round development in morality, intelligence, physique, beauty and labor.

Article 2 Family education as mentioned in this Law refers to the cultivation, guidance and influence of parents or other guardians on minors' moral quality, physical quality, life skills, cultural accomplishment and behavior habits, so as to promote their all-round and healthy growth.

Article 3 Family education takes moral education as its fundamental task, cultivates and practices socialist core values, promotes the excellent traditional culture, revolutionary culture and advanced socialist culture of the Chinese nation, and promotes the healthy growth of minors.

Fourth parents or other guardians have the responsibility to carry out family education for minors.

The state and society provide guidance, support and services for family education.

State functionaries should take the lead in establishing a good family style and perform their family education duties.