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On November 22, 1981, Pope John Paul II issued Familiaris Consortio or "The Family Community in the Modern World." The Church has always esteemed the family and seen it as a "domestic Church." It is in the family that the first seeds of true Christian living are planted and cared for in an atmosphere of love, mutual help, forgiveness, and selfless giving. The Church itself is the family of God the Father. The Church has a special care for the family as the basic unit of society and the community which first preaches the Gospel to the children of God, bringing them to full human and Christian maturity. "At a moment of history in which the family is the object of numerous forces that seek to destroy it or in some way to deform it, and aware that the well-being of society and her own good are intimately tied to the good of the family, the Church perceives in a more urgent and compelling way her mission of proclaiming to all people the plan of God for marriage and the family, ensuring their full vitality and human and Christian development, and thus contributing to the renewal of society and of the People of God." (Pope John Paul II) Pope John Paul II does not directly say alcohol, drugs, premarital sex and teenage pregnancy a