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?

4 Quotes - Sex, marriage, raising a child, what family is

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”