Dallin H Oaks is a great advocate of the family. I loved his thoughts on Family Dinner:
(basically) "Children are less likely to smoke, do drugs, and other degrading acts when they regularly have family dinner altogether as a family."
Here is another girl who talked about how her family's daily gathering at dinner helped them stay close to each other and to the gospel: https://www.lds.org/new-era/2014/05/time-out-for-dinner?lang=eng