Marriage and Family Life
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- Created on: 29-04-16 20:11
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- Marriage and Family Life
- Changing attitudes
- Divorce accepted
- Increase in divorces
- People have sex before marriage
- Increase in re-inconstituted families because of divorcce
- Acceptable for couples to live together before marriage
- Cohabitation
- More children bought up in cohabiting families
- Cohabitation
- Increase in single parent families
- Reasons for changes
- Celebrities
- Media
- Increased availability in contraception
- Divorce
- Increase in re-marriage
- New laws
- Much cheaper
- Easier
- Women have courage to walk away
- Christian Attitudes
- Shouldn't happen
- "What God has joined, let no one separate"
- Some allow
- Shows that Church is forgiving
- Prevents suffering
- Shows that Church is forgiving
- Islam Attitudes
- Allowed
- But discouraged
- It splits family unit
- Weakens Muslim community
- Mohammed didn't divorce
- Homosexuality
- Medical research has grown
- Gay celebrities
- Islam attitudes
- Some say:
- Wrong
- Condemned by Qur'an
- Wrong
- Others say:
- Acceptable
- Genetic
- Islam is about love
- Allah loves all
- Acceptable
- Some say:
- Christian Attitudes
- Catholic Church
- Not a sin
- But relationships are sin
- Homophobia is condemned
- You can control your sexual behaviour
- Homophobia is condemned
- Evangelical
- Not accepted
- Prayer will change you
- Liberal Protestants
- Accpeted
- If they're lifelong
- But not equal to Christian marriage
- Accpeted
- Catholic Church
- Divorce accepted
- Sex outside marriage
- Islam attitudes
- Adultery is condemned
- Believe it's wrong
- Likely to harm family
- Can only take place between a man and a woman when married
- Christian Attitudes
- Some:
- Accept couples living together as long as they're committed to a long term relationship
- Sexuality is only giver for procreation
- Bible says that pre-marital sex and promiscuity is sinful
- Some:
- Islam attitudes
- Contraception
- Christian attitudes
- Acceptable
- Allows couple to plan
- Protects mother
- To some extent
- e.g IUD
- Morning after pill
- Acceptable
- Catholic attitudes
- Not acceptable
- Interferes with God's plan
- Bible tells to go forth and multiply
- Acceptable in some forms
- e.g absitence
- Not acceptable
- Islam attitudes
- Accpetable
- Health
- Not acceptable
- Children are a gift from Allah
- Some contraception causes early abortion
- All Muslims should have a family
- Accpetable
- Christian attitudes
- Changing attitudes
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