Family in Asia Under Attack

A report on the recently concluded conference of the Service and Research Institute on Family and Children, sponsored by the Pontifical Council for Culture, held in Bangkok — Globalization ‘destroying Asian family’:

Catherine Bernard, founder-president-director of SERFAC, observes that the traditional family of the 1960s has evolved into what she has termed the ‘networked family’ of today.

According to a SERFAC report: “The networked family destroys the identities of Asian people in terms of respect for seniority, eating behavior, traditions and religious values.”