Christian Views About Different Types Of Family Flashcards
Traditional Christian teaching often assumes that a family consists of two parents. This picture of a “normal” family has been exploited by advertisers, who showed their odious used in scenarios in which a father went to work as a chief breadwinner while his wife did domestic chores. ? ? ? has challenged this stereotype and advertisers sometimes acknowledge that some families have one parent, that many women work outside the home and many men do domestic chores.
Contemporary modern society.
The concept of family’s difficult to define, as the word can have different meanings in different context. ? and ? understand the function of the family as a social unit that provides protection and ? for its members. Family members share tasks such as earning money, preparing meals and raising children.
Sociologists.
Anthropologists.
Socialisation.
A family with two heterosexual married parents and their children’s the ideal in Christianity, but in reality there are many different kinds of family and there always have been. In recent years, same-sex couples have been able to live together more openly, sometimes with children. The increase in divorce and reducing popularity of marriage has meant that a high ? of families in the UK aren’t the traditional kind.
Proportion.
Christianity reaches that marriage’s the best context for raising a family. The majority of Christians understand this to mean heterosexual marriage. According to Christian ?, marriage’s ordained by God, seem to be a sacrament.
Doctrine.
Divorce’s accepted in some Christian denominations, but not for all. Catholicism doesn’t insist that a married couple live together, but it’ll not recognise civil divorce and won’t allow people who’ve been divorced to marry new partners in a church. Many other Christian denominations take a different view, emphasising the importance in Christianity of forgiveness and opportunities to make a fresh start. They often allow the ? ? of minister to make a decisions about whether to conduct a service of marriage between people who’ve previously been divorced.
Parish priest.
Most non-religious ? believe that women should’ve access to both contraception and abortion in order to have the choice of avoiding or terminating unwanted pregnancies. However, artificial methods of contraception aren’t acceptable to the Catholic Church, and many Christians disagree with abortion, seeing it as the destruction of a ? ? ?
Feminists.
Sacred human life.
Christian teaching emphasises that sexual relationships should take place within marriage and that children are a gift from God, whereas non-religious people and some Christians might consider this old-fashioned, restricting of the rights of adults to enjoy ? ?
Sexual freedom.
For many Christians, homosexual relationships are “?”. Some Christians accept homosexuality and are happy to support homosexual friends in their relationships but feel that “marriage” is wrong, arguing that marriage’s ordained by God to be between a man and a woman.
Unnatural.
Other Christians are happy to accept marriage between same sexy couples, arguing that all love comes from God and that couples should be encouraged and supported by the Christian community if they want to make public commitments of ? to each other in marriage.
Faithfulness.
