The family as an institution may change, but usually this is a slow and to the members of society partly unnoticeable process. Explicit decisions to change or abolish the family as a social institution has occurred very seldom. Exceptions are the Soviet-Union policy for some years after the revolution, and the establishment of the Kibbutzim in Israel. Since the existing family order is often taken for granted, one do not always find that prevailing ideologies account for the family as such, either in a supportive or in a rejecting way. In the Scandinavian countries, as in most Western societies, the Christian value system may be said to be as an ideology, the most ardent supporter of the traditional family. One may note in passing that the inheritance of the old Hebraic patriarchal family pattern as the ideal family to be defended by the Christian churches has left a very special mark on the Catholic as well as the Protestant views on the family institution, not to speak of the Jewish ideas about the family.