by President Joseph F. Smith

What then is an ideal home–a model home such as it should be the ambition of the Latter-day Saints to build?…It is one in which all worldly considerations are secondary. One in which the father is devoted to the family with which God has blessed him, counting them of first importance; and in which they, in turn, permit him to live in their hearts. One in which there is confidence, union, love, sacred devotion, between father and mother, and children and parents. One in which the mother takes every pleasure in her children supported by the father–all being moral, pure, God-fearing.

“The Ideal Home,” Improvement Era, March 1905, 387.