religion and relationships

Adultery - To have an affair: not your marital partner

Age of consent - The age considered a person is old enough to decide to have sex

Celibacy - To not have any sexual relationships

Chastity - Keeping oneself sexually pure. no sex before marriage

Commitment - The act of making a promise or pledge

Contraception - Precautions taken to prevent pregnancy

Contract - A binding, forming agreement between 2 sides

Covenant - A agreement based on promises between 2 sides

Faithfulness - Staying with your married partner

Heterosexuality - Being physically attracted to someone of the opposite sex

Homosexuality - Being physically attracted to someone of the same sex

Responsibility - A duty: a legal or moral obligation, something we have to do

Divorse - The legal ending of a marriage

Marriage - The legal joining of 2 people Husband and Wife

Parenting - Being a good Mother or Father

Pre-Marital Sex - Sex before marrage

Promiscuity - Having sex with a number of partners without commitment

Sexuality - The state of being straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual or transsexual

Vows - Religious marriage promises 

Responsibility - A duty: a legal or moral obligation, something we have to do

Divorse - The legal ending of a marriage

Marriage - The legal joining of 2 people Husband and Wife

Parenting - Being a good Mother or Father

Pre-Marital Sex - Sex before marrage

Promiscuity - Having sex with a number of partners without commitment

Sexuality - The state of being straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual or transsexual

Vows - Religious marriage promises 

Artificial Methods: Contraceptive devices that are made and used like a condom.

Natural Method: Contraceptive pracrises or behaviours aimed at limiting the chance of pregnancy, such as the Rhyham Method.

Permanent methods: Operations to prevent either the production of an eff or sperm, only guaranteed contraceptive to be 100% accurate to prevent pregnancy.

• Love
• Money
• Family
• Religious Duty
• Sex
• Legitimise a child
• Arranged marrage 
• Legal in the country

Men go out to work all day and do the tough things, bring home the wages. The women stay home and look after the children, typical housewife.

Modern View Of Family:

Men go out to work but also help with the house and look after children. The women look after the children as go out to work and earn money.

Cohabitation - Living together as if married 

Civil Marriage - Non-religious marriage 

Cival Partnership - The legalunion of 2 people who are the same sex

Religious parenting is when they also want their children to follow their own faith, so they teach then belief and teachings and some even under commitment ceremonies.

• Most christians believe that only married couples should have sex and only with each other, chastity is a virtue.
• Attitudes to the uses of contraception vary.
• The Roman Catholic Church say that the use of contraception  is against natural law.
• It's natual that conception may happen with intercourse and therefore this should not be prevented.
• The most important reason is to have children.
• Sex before marriage is called fornication and is a sin.
• Homosexual sex is thought to be unnatural and cannot lead to pregnancy.
• In the bible it says: "No man is to have sex with another man, God hates that".
• Some christians tolerate sex before marriage in a relationship that is leading towards marriage, seeing it as an expression of love.
• Some are for contraception if you have had enough children that you can handle.
• The bible said: " Don't commit adultery".
• Jesus said even if you look at someone lustfully it is wrong.

• Sexualuty is seen as a girft from god, because all beings have sexual urges.
• Sikhs warn about against being controlled by your sex drive but by marriage.
• Sex before marriage is wrong.
• Celibacy asa a life choice isn't encouraged 
• Homosexuality is wrong but we are gifted from god, when it comes to deciding on which contraception to use, Sikhs can chose for themselves.
• They are encouraged to follow responsible parenthood.
• Only to have as many children that can be handled.
• Sikhs wouldn't permit permanent methods of contraception unless it is a medical reason.

• Marriage is the legal union of 2 people.
• The couple will come to be united in marriage by the priest. He greets them before the whole congregation.
• The priest asks 3 sets of questions to the bride and groom to make sure they understand the responsabilities of marriage.
• The couple then take their vows to each other "for richer for poorer" "love and cherish" the priest declares that they have agreed to marry before God and accepts their decisions, it is at this point he says "what god has joined together,let no man put asunder".
• The rings are blesses and exchanged the priest blesses the marriage.
• The couple could sign the register.

• Divorce is always wrong. 
• Marriage is sacred and cannot be brocken. 
• Promises are made to God and each other to stay together "until death do us part" and these are promises that are binding, divorce is discouraged but accepted as a last resort it is sometimes the lesser of 2 evils

• God hates divorce.
• Whoever divorces then marries another it is as he has commit adultery.
• Forgive and Love.