Relationships And Families

Question 1

What does heterosexual mean?

Answer 1

Sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex

Question 2

What does homosexual mean?

Answer 2

Sexually attracted to members of the same sex

Question 3

Why is the age of consent is 16?

Answer 3

Mature enough to make their own decisions

Question 4

What are some arguments supporting homosexuality?

Answer 4

-God made everyone in his own image
-God gave humans free will

Question 5

What are some arguments against homosexuality?

Answer 5

God made Adam and Eve as an ideal couple
-God intended humans to reproduce, this is what sex should be used for
- “ be fruitful and multiply “

Question 6

What’s adultery?

Answer 6

Voluntary sex with a married person and someone who is not their spouse

Question 7

What’s a Christian beliefs supporting sex before marriage?

Answer 7

-valid expression of their love for each other
- god gave everyone free will

Question 8

What’s a Christian beliefs against sex before marriage?

Answer 8

“Flee from sexual immorality”
-it’s prohibited by God

Question 9

What’s do Christians believe about sex outside of marriage?

Answer 9

Wrong because it involves secrecy, lies, and a betrayal of trust

Question 10

What’s contraception?

Answer 10

Methods used to prevent a pregnancy

Question 11

What’s family planning?

Answer 11

Controlling how many children couples have and when they have them

Question 12

What are some methods of contraception?

Answer 12

-pill
-coil
-implant

Question 13

What are some british attitudes towards family planning?

Answer 13

Protestant churches
-it is acceptable to use birth control, as long as it is not used to encourage or permit promiscuous behaviour.

Question 14

what are some views and actions in favour of contraception? (buddhism)

Answer 14

1. as long as it is used with the right intention
2. do not believe having children is a religious duty
3. If the child will be born in suffering ( dukka )use contraception

Question 15

what are some views and actions in favour of contraception? (christianity)

Answer 15

2. lets parents plan their family in a responsible way
3. see it as a positive that women can control when they get pregnant

Question 16

What are some views against contraception? (christianity)

Answer 16

1. “transmit human life”
2. anything that is “deliberately contraceptive” is “intrinsically wrong”
3. may see it as abortion
4. Point of sex if for procreation
   5, “ be fruitful and multiply “

Question 17

What is gender equality?

Answer 17

Giving people the same rights and opportunities regardless of whether they are male or female

Question 18

What is gender prejudice?

Answer 18

Unfairly judging someone before the facts are known, holding a biased opinion about an individual or group based on their gender

Question 19

What is sexual stereotyping?

Answer 19

Having a fixed general idea or image of how men and women will behave

Question 20

What is gender discrimination?

Answer 20

Acting against someone on the basis their gender

Question 21

What are Christian views on gender discrimination?

Answer 21

-up to 2014 no female priests
-Catholics = male popes
-“wives must submit to their husbands”
-women in church must be silent
-“God created everyone is his image”

Question 22

What are Buddhists views on gender discrimination?

Answer 22

-rules for women are different
-nuns have over 200 more precepts to learn
-Mahayana Buddhists believe nuns can’t achieve enlightenment: they hope to be reborn a man

Question 23

christian’s views on cohabitation?

Answer 23

1. against it - disagree with sex outside marriage
2. could be seen as preparation for marriage

Question 24

buddhist’s views on cohabitation?

Answer 24

1. common to cohabitate as marriage is not an important part of buddhism
2. many buddhists chose not to marry and enjoy raising a family in cohabitation

Question 25

What is polygamy?

Answer 25

Marriage to multiple people

Question 26

What’s a family?

Answer 26

A group of people who are related by blood, marriage or adoption

Question 27

What’s a nuclear family?

Answer 27

A couple and their children regarded as a basic social unit

Question 28

What’s a stepfamily?

Answer 28

A family that is formed on the remarriage or a divorced or widowed person and that includes a child or children

Question 29

What’s an extended family?

Answer 29

Family that extends beyond just parents and their children by including grandparents as well

Question 30

What’s bigamy?

Answer 30

Offence of marrying someone while already married

Question 31

What do Christian’s believe the purpose of families are? (4 reasons )

Answer 31

-procreation
-stability
-protection of children
-educating children in faith

Question 32

What do Christians believe about the nature of family?

Answer 32

-it is within a family that a child learns to love
-Jesus commanded that all Christians should “love one another”

Question 33

What’s procreation?

Answer 33

Bringing babies into the world

Question 34

What’s a civil partnership?

Answer 34

Legal union of same-sex couples

Question 35

What’s marriage?

Answer 35

Legal union between a man and a woman

Question 36

What’s cohabitation?

Answer 36

Couple living together + having sex but not married

Question 37

Why are some Christian’s against same-sex marriage?

Answer 37

-Adam & Eve = can procreate naturally
-“be fruitful and multiply”

Question 38

What are two contrasting Christian views on cohabitation?

Answer 38

BAD: could lead to pre-marital sex
GOOD: one day you might get married/ planning to marry

Question 39

What are the 3 main points of the purpose of marriage?

Answer 39

-God’s relationship with humanity
-the correct place for having sex
-correct place to bring children into the world

Question 40

What are 3 reasons for divorce?

Answer 40

-grow apart + fall out of love
-abusive relationship
-cheating

Question 41

What are Christians views on divorce?

Answer 41

-form of adultery
“Two will become one flesh”
-God has joined together, let no one separate

Question 42

What is divorce?

Answer 42

Legal ending of a marriage

Question 43

What’s an annulment?

Answer 43

Catholic Church ruling that a marriage was never valid