Family Flashcards
Types of families
- Nuclear family - parents and children living together
- Childless family - couple living together without children
- Single-parent family - one parent caring for children
- Extended family- relatives all living together (e.g: grandparents)
- Reconstituted family - step family living together
Why is family life important for Christians and Muslims?
- Important place to celebrate faith
- To procreate, perfect environment to raise children
- Children are a gift from God
- Ten commandments (“honour your father and mother”)
Christian and Islamic views on family roles
- Both have traditional views on family roles
- Men provide for the family
- Women are responsible for the domestic life*maintain home* *provide stability* *care for children*
What has family got to do with religion?
- This is where religion is taught
- Religious believers think it is a religious duty for parents to bring up their children to share in their faith and teach values that are important to them
Humanists believe that children should make up their own ideas and have a free choice when accepting different beliefs.
What does this quote by Pope Francis suggest?
“young people are the face of the Church’s future; women, who play a fundamental role in passing on the faith.”
- The role of the mother is to pass on religious faith
- Family is the basis of human society
CHRISTIANITY - SOURCE OF WISDOM ON CARING FOR CHILDREN7
“train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it” - PROVERBS 22:6
CHRISTIANITY - SOURCE OF WISDOM ON FAMILY
“how good and pleasing is it when families live together as one,” - PSLAMS 133:1
ISLAM - SOURCE OF WISDOM ON FAMILY ROLES
“…a man is the guardian of his family and is responsible for his subjects; a women is the guardian of her husband’s home and of his children,” - HADITH 9:89:252
HUMANIST - SOURCE OF WISDOM FOR FAMILY
“The home should be perceived as a microcosm of the universe.” - RABBI MENACHEM SCHNEERSON
