EN
The social life is dependant on the procreative role of the family. The size and the characteristics of a population have got a vital impact on how a society functions. In that sense the family is the basis of social life. The papal social teaching draws attention to this fact. A more complex understanding of the procreative role is possible in the context of theology. In this particular perspective one can see the fundamental perils for the process of passing on life. They are manifested in acts of breaking the communion with God. The negative tendencies in the area of procreation, in both anthropological and social aspect, can be overcome when the parents gain the awareness of how much they have been given by God. They have received life and they participate in the process of continuous creation of the world. God’s gifts carry certain obligations – some tasks to be fulfilled. In the case of the procreative role these obligations are: respecting the God’s commandments and taking up the mission of educators. The latter one follows the call to making a new human person come into being