What is the Buddhist perspective of the family?

Bright on Buddhism Episode 56 - What is the Buddhist perspective of the family? How ought laypeople have and maintain a family? How ought monks and nuns have and maintain a family? Resources: Wilson, Liz. Family in Buddhism. Ed. Liz Wilson. Albany: SUNY Press, 2013. Print.; WILLIAMS, DUNCAN RYŪKEN. The Other Side of Zen: A Social History of Sōtō Zen Buddhism in Tokugawa Japan. Vol. 10. Princeton University Press, 2005. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1fkgd77.; Cabezón, José Ignacio, ed. Buddhism, Sexuality, and Gender. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992.; Cole, Alan. “Upside Down/Right Side Up: A Revisionist History of Buddhist Funerals in China.” History of Religions 35, no. 4 (1996): 307–338.; Cole, Alan. Mothers and Sons in Chinese Buddhism. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998.; Cole, Alan. “Homestyle Vinaya and Docile Boys in Chinese Buddhism.” Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique 7, no. 1 (1999): 5–50.; Faure, Bernard. The Red Thread: Buddhist Approaches to Sexuality. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998.; Schopen, Gregory. Bones, Stones, and Buddhist Monks: Collected Papers on the Archaeology, Epigraphy, and Texts of Monastic Buddhism in India. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press,1997.; Buddhism and The Family, Alan Cole, Robert E Buswell: Encyclopedia of Buddhism; Sammanaphala Sutta Do you have a question about Buddhism that you'd like us to discuss?   Let us know by finding us on email or social media!   https://linktr.ee/brightonbuddhism Credits: Nick Bright: Script, Cover Art, Music, Voice of Hearer, Co-Host Proven Paradox: Editing, mixing and mastering, social media, Voice of Hermit, Co-Host