Roles which fathers can perform in order to ensure stability in the family

1. Provision of security and protection
2. Provision of physical needs of members
3. Provision of emotional needs of members
4. Socialization of members
5. Provision of moral training to members
6. Ensuring discipline among members
7. Provision of education for members
8. Provision of sexual needs of wife
9. Helping the wife to earn a living
10. Settling disputes in the family
11. Involving all members in decision
12. Provision of facilities for recreation and leisure

Roles of family in Ghanaian society

1. Socialization
2. Procreation
3. Identity to members
4. Provides physiological needs of its members
5. Provides security and protection to its members
6. Provides a sense of self-esteem
7. Provides occupational training to members
8. Provides domestic training to members
9. Ensures the maintenance of law and order in the society
10. Provides support and comfort

1. Mutual assistance
2. Effective social control mechanism
3. Ensures continuous existence of the family system
4. Effective socialization
5. Sense of belonging/Prestige for the individual
6. Provision of large family labour
7. Source of identity to the individual in the society
8. Source of social insurance and security for the individual
9. Source of skill training for the individual
10. Serves as avenue for the individual to acquire property
11. Inculcates a sense of teamwork and co-operation in the individuals