Theme A:Relationships and families(part2)

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  • Families and Gender Equality
    • Nature of families
      • Role of parents and children
        • Islam: "Your Lord has commanded that you worship none but Him and that you be kind to your parents. If one of them or both of them reach old age with you, do not say to them a word of disrespect… and act humbly to them in mercy."
        • Christianity: "Honour your father and mother"
      • Types of families
        • nuclear
        • extended
        • same sex
        • single parent
        • reconstituted
    • Purpose of families
      • procreation
        • "be fruitful and multiply"
      • stability and protection of children
        • Men should truly esteem and love women with total respect for their personal dignity, and society should create and develop conditions favouring work in the home.
      • educating children in a faith
        • "Children, obey your parents...Parents, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the instruction of the Lord."
        • "These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up."
    • Contemporary family issues
      • same-sex parents
        • for
          • "created in the image of God"= to condemn them is wrong
        • against
          • Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
      • polygamy
        • "you shall not commit adultery"
        • illegal in the UK
    • Gender equality
      • for equality
        • "everyone is equal"
        • "treat others how you would want to be treated"
        • "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus"
      • prejudice and discrimination
        • Bible:"Women should remain silent in the churches if they enquire something they must ask their husbands at home"
        • "Men are appointed guardians over women, because of that in respect of which Allah has made some of them excel others, and because men spend of their wealth."

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