The fundamental task of family education is to educate people, cultivate and practice socialist core values, carry forward the excellent traditional culture, revolutionary culture and advanced socialist culture of the Chinese nation, and promote the healthy growth of minors. According to the Law on the Promotion of Family Education, family education is different from school education with "morality, intelligence, physique and art" as its main aspects, emphasizing "taking morality first".

Family education refers to the cultivation, guidance and influence of parents or other guardians on minors' moral quality, physical quality, life skills, cultural accomplishment and behavior habits, so as to promote their comprehensive and healthy growth.

Parents or other guardians of minors have the responsibility to implement family education. The state and society provide guidance, support and services for family education. State functionaries should take the lead in establishing a good family style and perform their family education duties.

Family education is one of the components of big education and the foundation of school education and social education. Family education is lifelong education, and family education in early childhood is the beginning of life education, which plays a fundamental role in people's life.