Every religion has the purpose of leading people toward happiness, and Confucianism is about it as well.
http://www.slideshare.net/bright9977/9-powerful-life-lessons-from-confucius
The Utopian view in this text is the love of family. According to many scientists, family is the smallest unit of a society just as a cell is the smallest unit of a organism, or a molecule is the smallest unit of a substance. In confucianism, "every one loves his own parents and cherishes children". As a result, Asian people in a family usually live together in one house including three generations in which children respect, obey, and take care of elderly; the elderly give lessons and keep an eye on the younger. Unfortunately, we are loosing that lovely thought. In Asian nowadays, people have started to move out when they get married, or they take less care of the elderly because youngster think they need something up-to-date with the high technology world and seem to be ignore the ancient thoughtful lesson. And that leads to increase the rate of divorce, abortion, child abuse, family abuse, ect.
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