Clinics for Sustainable Families would be the service delivery point for a highly beneficial synergy, the elements of which are not readily apparent:

• The values that have sustained our species for over 200,000 years or 8,000 generations; (See Addendum, “The Values that have Sustained Our Species,” page 27.)
• Human motivation based on those values ² ;
• Decision-making based on the use of those values; (See Addendum, “The Organic Morality of Social Sustainability,” page 31.)
• Biologic epigenesis; Social epigenesis;
• Families as the social and moral initiators for the social evolution of our societies and civilizations; and
• Societies with democratic governments.

One commonality ties these elements together that supports their synergy— the seven sustaining values of the Homo sapiens species. These values, as described on page 27 are self-evident; universal to all people of all races, cultures, ethnicity, nations, and cultures; irreducible; and are organic, innate, and timeless. Because these values are innate they motivate each of us in all our life’s activities and create a continuity in the whole of our lives; and when a society is motivated in the same direction, that synergism creates an energy with accomplishments that far surpass those when working alone.

[Though the seven values are universally common to all people, the interpretations ³ people assign to them creates a wide variation of beliefs.]

The synergism applies to all people, but can most capably come into expression (social evolution) in democratic societies. Human motivation, which expresses in the physical, mental, emotional, intellectual, social, cultural, and spiritual spheres of human development, is suppressed in one or more spheres in regimes that are not based on democratic principles. And this creates a frustration in the energies of individuals to accomplish what otherwise would be natural for them to fulfill. Collectively, that stifled energy often results in large scale protests, then insurrections, and revolts, (Venezuela, 2017).

Proposing Clinics for Sustainable Families as a permanent social institution similar to public schools in every community would be easily contestable except for the fact that Clinic programs are based upon the decision-making values (see illustration below) that give our species biologic sustainability. Together, these values create a synergism that not only sustains our species but gives our species the capability of being humane. That same synergism is available to our societies when the same values are used to design and validate social policies and programs. They create the very real possibility of giving communities, societies, and our democratic nations the capability of social sustainability.

²    Raphael, Daniel 2015. Social Sustainability HANDBOOK for Community-Builders p 28-30. 
Also, Organic Morality, Answering the Critically Important Moral Questions of the 3rd Millennium, (p 79), an unpublished manuscript by the author. Available by email without cost as a PDF document.

³  Organic Morality, p 23-24, 49.