You can see that families are in turmoil today just by the amount of literature being written on the family today. In your local Christian bookstore the section on parenting and the family is larger than the commentary section. Yet all that is needed as far as the operation of the family is written right here in four short verses. The other Scriptures that speak on the parent-child relationship illuminate this passage right here. It is one of those passages that everyone thinks of when they think of the parent-child relationship.