RS Unit 3.1 The Role And Purpose Of Families

Question 1

What is a traditional family?

Answer 1

•Husband and Wife
•Chastity and Married
•Education from parents and secondary school
•Consummate Sex

Question 2

What is a Modern family?

Answer 2

•Heterosexual or Homosexual
•Doesn’t have to live together
•Don’t have to be married
•Civil Partnership and Co-Habitation
•Pre marital sex
•Children are self reliant
•Education from media

Question 3

What are Christian views upon families?

Answer 3

•Every family in the Bible is a father married to a mother
•Genesis teaches “Go forth and multiply”
•In the Gospel of Mark it says “Man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife”
•In Ephesians it says “Do not provoke your children bring them up in discipline and instruction of the lord”
•Catholic Catechism says “Family is the original cell of social life”