Family structures and responsibilities
Types of families
Christian beliefs about family
how has family life changed in the UK
Nuclear- a couple and their children regarded as a basic social unit
Same-sex parents- people of the same sex who are raising children together
Extended-a family that extends beyond just parents and their children by including grandparents and other relatives as well
Step- family that is formed on the remarriage of a divorced or widowed person and that includes a child or children
Polygamy- the practice or custom of having more than one wife at the same time
Family- a group of people who are related by blood, marriage or adoption
Bigamy- the offence in the UK of marrying someone while already married to another person
same sex families where legalised
people have children before marriage
there's now more premarital sex due to a much wider variety of more reliable contraception
more single parent families
many more divorces
more unmarried parents
more step families
men and women can now both provide for the family
god instigated family thus it is very important
the family is a place of love and children should be raised in a love filled environment
Honour your father and mother
anyone who does not provide for their relatives, and especially for their own household has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever
there are examples of polygamy in the bible, and there was a law that protected inheritance rights of the first born child
However, christians believe that the ideal marriage or one man and one woman for life was created at the beginning.
Paul makes it clear that each man should have his own wife and each women should have her won husband to avoid sexual immortality
Polygamous marriages cannot be performed in Britain as they are illegal
1 focused point of a christian family that separates it is the parents teaching the child to love thy neighbour.