People from some parts of the world attribute this responsibility chiefly to the mother due to the fact that the mother is usually more in contact with the child compared to the fathers (usually absent due to work). However, generally, it is the responsibility of both parties to instil moral values in their childern.
“Parents are a child's first teachers and role models” They are responsible for shaping up the child's behavior and implementing positive values in them. Children listen, observe and imitate their parents. So it is important that they should be good role models the kids would want to follow.
We forgot about grandparents. In traditional societies, they transmit the experience of generations. On the one hand, they teach their grandchildren; on the other, they show children how to teach, i.e. also prepare them for the role of elders in the family. Each child has two grandmothers, two grandfathers, parents, and also more distant relatives whom he sees. So, the transmission system of generational experience was duplicated many times. In the modern nuclear family, however, the number of older relatives decreases sharply, they, if any, are isolated from children. In my particular case, my grandmother and my grandfather had the greatest influence on me (and even that grandfather was not mine personally, but my cousin’s grandfather, he was the only man from this generation in family, who survived in the twists and turns of our twentieth-century history.) And I regret that I did not communicate much with him. Who else could tell me about General Samsonov, Masurian swamps, the Polish captain and how many bottles of champagne went to the saddle bag?
They are the only thread that connects my grandson in the XXI century with the XIX. And the parents ... They mainly showed me examples how shouldn't ...