Re - Marriage And Family Life

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Reasons for changes

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Cohabitation and marriage
> Better contraception
> Fewer people go church and so not told to keep sex until marriage
> Media and celebrities make it look respectable

Divorce
> New laws made divorce much cheaper and easier for ordinary people
> Increased equality of women- women are more financially independent
> In olden days, men were allowed more than one wife

Family life
> More people are cohabiting and having children
>Increase in divorce has meant an increase in remarriage
> More mothers are in paid employment and use retired grandparents to look after families
> More single parents families becuase of divorce and unmarried mothers

Homosexaulity
> Change in laws have made it easier for homosexuals
> Media covereage of gay couples
> Civil partnership

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How attitudes have changed

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> More people have sex before marriage
> Acceptable for couples to live together
> Avergae age for marrying has increased
> Divorce is accepted as notmal part of life
> Single parent family has increased as couples divorce
> More people divorce and remarry (reconstituted family)
> Civil partnership act 2004

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Christians attitudes to sec outside marriage

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Wrong
> Sex is for procreation and children must be brought up in christian family
> Bible says promiscuity and pre-martial sex is sinful (10 commandments)
> All churches teach pre-martial sex is wrong
> Break wedding vows
> Jesus condemns it

Some allow couples to live together if they are thinking of marriage and have sex if in long-term relationship

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Islamic attitudes to sex outside marriage

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Condemns any form of sex outside marriage

> Forbidden in Qur'an (boys and girls seperate after puberty)
> Shariah says sex should only take place within marriage
> Sex is for procreation and child should be brought up in a family
> Adultery is sin in Islam
- Condemned by God - breaks marriage contract

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Christians attitudes to divorce

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Catholic church does not allow
> Jesus taught divorce is wrong
> Breaks wedding vows
> Religious divorce is impossible becuase church teaches in catechism that marriage cannot be dissolved
> No religious divorce = no remarriage, seen as adultery

Non-catholic churches thing is wrong but allows if marriage is broken
> Jesus allowed divorce in Matthew 19:9 for a partners adultery
> Christians allowed forgiveness and a new chance for confessed sins
> Better to divorce than live in hatred all the time

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Islam and divorce

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Some do not allow
> There is a Hadith where Muhammad is reported said divorce most hated things allowed
> Most marriages arranged by families who want to keep marriage working
> Islam teaches on last day - muslims judged on how well treated childre - divorce harms children

Most allow
> Qur'an permits it
> Shariah permits divorce
> Believe better to divorce than have hatred and bitterness
>Marriage is a contract in Islam and contracts can be ended

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Why family life is important to Christians

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> Family life created by God and the only place where child should be brought up
> Family is the place where children learn difference between right and wrong
> One main purpose of marriage is to have childrena nd bring them up in a christian home

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Why family life is important to Muslims

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> Children are gift from God- at end of world muslims will be judged by God on how well brought up children
> Family life created by God and the only place where child should be brought up
> All muslims expected to follow perfect example of Prohet Muhammad who married and raised a family
> Family is the place where children learn difference between right and wrong

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Christian attitudes to homosexuality

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Against (Catholic)
> Homosexuality acts are wrong
> The bible condemns homosexuality activity
> Sex is for procreation
> Church teaches people cant chose but can control

Against (Evangelical Protestant)
> Homosexuality is a sin
> Bible is direct words of God

For (Liberal Protestant)
> Christianity is about love and acceptance
> Christianity should be open and honest and pretending not be be gay would be telling lies

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Muslim attitudes to homosexuality

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Against (most)
> Condemned in Qur'an
> Prophet Muhammad condemned it
> God says in Qur'an that marriage is between a man and a women

Accept (some)
> Islam is a religion of tolerance
> God created all people whatever their sexual orientation
> God must have made some people homosexual (scientific)

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Christian attitudes to contraception

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Against (catholic)
> Church teaches that sex should be unitive and creative (procreation)
> Some contraception brings out a very early abortion
> Contraception leads to promiscuity, broken families, divorce and sexually transmitted diseases

For (non catholic)
> Christianity is about love and justce - contraception can improve womens health
> God created sex for enjoyment, not just children
> Nothing in bible that does not allow it
> Condoms are best way of combat AIDS/HIV

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Muslim attitudes to contraception

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Against
> Qur'an bans abortion and some contraception can cause an early abortion
> God created sex for making children
> Believe its a muslims duty to have a large family

For - limit family size
> Hadith recorded the Prophet allowing the coitus interruptus as a means of contraception
> Qur'an says God does not place extra burden on his followers , and contraception stops extra burden
> Muslim lawyers agree that contraception is different from abortion so is allowed