Family life is an important value in most human societies. Members of the same family love each other, help each other and support each other.
For Aboriginal people, the family is also the traditional place for transmitting knowledge from one generation to the next.
In the traditional Aboriginal family, each member had a role: the women cared for the children, farmed the land and made everyday objects; men fed the family by hunting and fishing, and built houses. The elders, both the men and the women, transmitted the culture through their advice and stories.