Human Sexuality - Marriage

Question 1

A formal union and social and
legal contract between two
individuals that unites their lives
legally, economically, and
emotionally.

Answer 1

MARRIAGE

Question 2

The ________________,
which became effective on _________,
defines Marriage as a special contract of
permanent union between a man and a
woman entered into in accordance
with law for the establishment of
conjugal and the family life.

Answer 2

New Family Code of the Philippines, August 3, 1998

Question 3

First, the legal point of view:

Answer 3

posits that marriage is a contract

Question 4

Second, religious point of view:

Answer 4

posits that marriage is a sacrament

Question 5

Art.3. The formal requisites of marriage are:

Answer 5

1. Authority of solemnizing officer
2. A valid marriage license and
3. A marriage ceremony which takes place with
   the appearance of the contracting parties
   before the solemnizing officer and their
   personal declaration that they take each
   other as husband and wife in the presence of
   not less than two witnesses of legal age:

Question 6

Art.4.

Answer 6

The absence of any of the essential
or formal requisites shall render the
marriage “void ab initio” (void from the
beginning)

Question 7

Refers to the legal process of filing a
petition in the appropriate court
seeking a judicial declaration of
making a marriage null and
void ab initio or from the beginning
as if no marriage took place.

Answer 7

ANNULMENT

Question 8

Art.45. Enumerates the grounds for
annulment of marriage, as follows:

Answer 8

1. One of the contracting parties is 18
   yrs. of age or over but bellow 21 and
   without parental consent;
2. Either party was of unsound mind;
3. Consent of either party was obtained
   by fraud, force and intimidation;

Question 9

Art.45. Enumerates the grounds for
annulment of marriage, as follows:

Answer 9

4. Either party was physically incapable
   of consummating the marriage with the
   other; and
5. Either party was afflicted with a
   sexually transmissible disease found to
   be serious and incurable.

Question 10

Refers to the legal process of filling a
petition in the appropriate court
seeking a judicial declaration of legal
separation for married couples.

Answer 10

D. LEGAL SEPARATION

Question 11

Art.55. A petition for legal separation
may be filed on any of the following
grounds:

Answer 11

1. Repeated physical violence or grossly
   abusive conduct directed against the
   petitioner;
2. Physical violence or moral pressure to
   compel the petitioner, a political
   affiliation;

Question 12

Art.55. A petition for legal separation
may be filed on any of the following
grounds:

Answer 12

3. Attempt of respondent to corrupt or
   induce the petitioner, a common child, or
   a child of the petitioner, to engage in
   prostitution, or connivance in such
   corruption or inducement;

Question 13

Art.55. A petition for legal separation
may be filed on any of the following
grounds:

Answer 13

4. Final judgment sentencing the
   respondent to imprisonment of more than
   six years; even if pardoned;
5. Drug addiction or habitual alcoholism
   of the respondent;
6. Lesbianism or homosexuality of the
   respondent;
7. Contracting by the respondent of a
   subsequent bigamous marriage, whether
   in the Philippines or abroad;
8. Sexual infidelity or perversion;
   grounds:
9. Attempt by the respondent against the
   life of the petitioner; or
10. Abandonment of petitioner by
    respondent without justifiable cause for
    more than one year.

Question 14

marriage between one
man and one woman.

Answer 14

Monogamy

Question 15

one husband and two or
more wives

Answer 15

Polygyny

Question 16

one wife and two or
more husbands

Answer 16

Polyandry

Question 17

two or more
husbands and two or more wives.

Answer 17

Group marriage

Question 18

Families that have
important stake in the type of spouse
their son or daughter will take usually
practice.

Answer 18

Parental Selection or Arranged
Marriages -

Question 19

• has become an
  important basis for marriage in our
  society.

Answer 19

Romantic Love

Question 20

thinks that sex is morally
permissible within the context of
a heterosexual, lifelong, and
monogamous marriage.
Any sexual act outside these
contexts - homosexuality,
masturbation, adultery, premarital
sex - is morally wrong.

Answer 20

Kant

Question 21

St. Aquinas and other Natural
Law theorists would say that our
sexual faculties have one true
end -

Answer 21

Procreation

Question 22

We can say then that, for the traditional ___- ____
Theory, premarital sex, masturbation, bestiality,
contraception, homosexual acts, pornography and
adultery are all wrong.

Answer 22

Natural Law Theory