In the light of the Word. You and your wife ; Your children are as the shoots of an olive tree ; A path of suffering and blood ; The work of your hands ; The tenderness of an embrace --T︣he experiences and challenges of families. The current reality of the family ; Some challenges --L︣ooking to Jesus : the vocation of the family. Jesus restores and fulfills God's plan ; The family in the documents of the Church ; The sacrament of matrimony ; Seeds of the Word and imperfect situations ; The transmission of life and the rearing of children ; The family and the Church --L︣ove in marriage. Our daily love ; Growing in conjugal love ; Passionate love ; The transformation of love --L︣ove made fruitful. Welcoming a new life ; An expanding fruitfulness ; Life in the wider family --S︣ome pastoral perspectives. Proclaiming the gospel of the family today ; Preparing engaged couples for marriage ; Accompanying the first years of married life ; Casting light on crises, worries and difficulties ; When death makes us feel its sting --T︣owards a better education of children. Where are our children? ; The ethical formation of children ; The value of correction as an incentive ; Patient realism ; Family life as an educational setting ; The need for sex education ; Passing on the faith --A︣ccompanying, discerning and integrating weakness. Gradualness in pastoral care ; The discernment of "irregular" situations ; Mitigating factors in pastoral discernment ; Rules and discernment ; The logic of pastoral mercy --T︣he spirituality of marriage and the family. A spirituality of supernatural communion ; Gathered in prayer in the light of Easter ; A spirituality of exclusive and free love ; A spirituality of care, consolation and incentive --.

Pope Francis takes a pastoral approach to the family in this long-awaited exhortation. This is an important document that will guide the Church for years to come in its care and attention to the family in all its dimensions.