Relationships
- Created by: Lucy Todd
- Created on: 13-06-11 21:42
Relationships
Responsibility
Commitment
Duties you should carry out
Liabilities
Your obligations
What you are expected to take care of
Dedication towards someone or something
Being devoted
Making and keeping a promise or obligation
Something you choose to do or be for a person
To ensure nothing harmful happens to that person. Caring about and wanting the best for each other. A duty to look after.
To ensure each person in the relationship can rely on each others faithfulness and loyalty
Types of Families
Nuclear – where parents live with their children but no other relatives live in the area
Extended – when several generations of the same family live in the same house or neighbourhood
Teachings on family life
Christianity
Islam
Children should be brought up with a mother and father
Parents should set their children a good example and encourage and help them to be good Christians
Children should obey and respect their parents
Children should look after their parents if they can’t look after themselves
Parents have a duty to look after their children and educate and bring them up as good Muslims
Children should respect their parents
Children should look after their parents if they can’t look after themselves
Because…
References in the Bible
Purposes of marriage – bringing up children in a Christian environment
The family was created by god to keep society together
In the Qur’an – children and a gift from go, parents will be judged on how they have brought them up
Muhammad married and had a family
Love
Storge
Affection and attachment to things. “sentimental love”
Philia
The love between friends and family, based on a close bond or connection
Eros
Sexual love between two people. Usually of the opposite sex, but varies on the society or culture.
Agape
Unconditional love, given freely. May be towards friends, family or other members of humanity
Religious and non-religious attitudes towards sex
Cohabitation – living together without being married
The number of first time marriages has been on the decline since the 1960’s
The number of children born outside marriage still continues to increase
Casual relationships and recreational sex – people having sex just for pleasure without commitment (one night stand)
Promiscuity – having several sexual partners without any commitment
Adultery – when a person in a marriage or relationship is unfaithful by having sex with someone else. Break of trust and commitment
In Christianity…
Celibacy
Chastity
Fidelity
choosing to remain unmarried and not have sex for a period of time or for life
to refrain from having sex and remain a virgin until marriage
being faithful sexually
Because…
Priests and nuns believe their calling from God requires them to do so
Sex is a distraction from god
Law for priests in the Catholic church
To practice self control
To concentrate their energies on other things
To practice birth control
For religious reasons
As an experiment in a relationship
Jesus spoke against sex outside marriage
The 7th commandment – “do not commit adultery
Goes…
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