Marriage And Family Life

Question 1

Adultery

Answer 1

A sexual act between a married person and someone other than their marriage partner

Question 2

Civil partnership

Answer 2

A legal ceremony giving homosexual partners the same legal rights as a husband and wife

Question 3

Cohabitation

Answer 3

Living together without being married

Question 4

Faithfulness

Answer 4

Staying with your marriage partner and only having sex with them

Question 5

Homosexuality

Answer 5

Sexual attraction to the same sex

Question 6

Nuclear family

Answer 6

Mother, father and children living as a unit

Question 7

Pre-martial sex

Answer 7

Sex before marriage

Question 8

Procreation

Answer 8

Making a new life

Question 9

Promiscuity

Answer 9

Having sex with a number of partners without commitment

Question 10

Re-constituted family

Answer 10

Where two sets of children become one family where their divorced parents marry each other

Question 11

Re-marriage

Answer 11

Marrying again after being divorced from a previous marriage

Question 12

Contraception

Answer 12

Intentionally preventing pregnancy from occurring

Question 13

Changing attitudes to marriage and cohabitation

Answer 13

• contraception made it safer to have sex before marriage
• Fewer people go to church therefore less people are encouraged to save sex for marriage
• media and society has accepted sex outside of marriage so people now think it’s okay
• celebrities made cohabitation look respectable and so it has become more popular

Question 14

What are the 4 purposes to catholic marriage

Answer 14

• sacrament
• permanent
• exclusive
• life giving

Question 15

How the purpose of a catholic marriage are show in the wedding ceremony

Answer 15

1) sacrament. Purpose of this is to show publicly the love the couple have for each other this is shown in the opening prayer of the ceremony.
2) permanent for life. This is shown in the vows when the couple says until death do us part.
3) exclusive. This is shown when the priest asks the couple if they have come freely and without reservation to their relationship.
4) live-giving. This is shown when the priest asks he couple if they will accept children from God lovingly.

Question 16

Catholic attitudes to sex outside marriage

Answer 16

• God gave sex for the procreation of children who should be brought up in a Christian family, so it should only take place within marriage.
• the bible teaches fornication is sinful and damages relationships but it also teaches sex and marriage always go together (Genesis 1, Song of Solomon)
• adultery breaks wedding vows to be faithful and is condemned in the 10 commandments to not commit adultery.
• Catechism teaches that pre-martial sex is wrong and Catholics should follow the teaches of the Catechism.

Question 17

Liberal christians attitudes to sex outside of marriage / cohabitation

Answer 17

• Jesus taught that love is the most important thing.
• the bible was written in a different culture and society
• the church has to come to terms with modern life and accept that it does not follow the old teachings.

Question 18

Sex outside of marriage

For:

Answer 18

• sex is a natural result of two people being in love, there is no reason for them to wait until marriage
• it is now accepted by society and very few people think it is wrong
• a couple may be in love and want to marry but cannot afford a wedding this shouldn’t stop them from being able to have sex.

Question 19

Christian attitudes to Cohabitation

Answer 19

• Married couples are more likely to stay together than cohabiting couples.
• Children of married couples have a more stable environment
• Church teaches that marriage did the basis of society and living together without being married is wrong.

Question 20

Non Christian attitudes to cohabitation

Answer 20

• couples who live together can just be as happy as married couples.
• you cannot promise to be with someone until death if you don’t even know what it’s like to live with them.
• some people may not be able to afford a wedding but still one each other deeply and want to live together.