Marriage

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UNIT 3
Marriage The Family
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UNIT OVERVIEW

• Purpose Attitudes to Marriage
• Attitudes to Divorce
• Changing nature of Family Life
• Studying Christian Hindu View

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Dharma

• P
• U
• R
• P
• O
• S
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Ashrama
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cohabitation
Householder
marriage
Samskara
faithfulness
Ashrama
pre-marital sex
Caste
MARRIAGE THE FAMILY
Dharma
promiscuity
adultery
re-constituted family
extended family
re-marriage
nuclear family
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Cohabitation
Where people live together without being married
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Marriage
The legal union of a man and woman for the
purpose of living together and, usually, having
children
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Faithfulness
Staying with your marriage partner and having sex
only with them
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Adultery
Sex between a married person and someone other
than their marriage partner
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Pre-marital sex
Sex before marriage
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Promiscuity
Having sex with a number of partners without
commitment
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Re-marriage
Marrying again after being divorced from a
previous marriage
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Nuclear family
Where mother, father and children live together
as a single unit
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Extended family
Where children, parents, grandparents, aunts
uncles live as a unit or in close proximity
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Re-constituted family
Where 2 sets of children (step siblings) become
one family when their divorced parents marry each
other
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Hindu Concepts
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BRAHMAN universal spirit
AHIMSA non-violence
SAMSARA cycle of life
HOUSEHOLDER
REINCARNATION born again
HINDU CONCEPTS
SAMSKARA rites of passage
ATMAN soul
ASHRAMA stage of life
MOKSHA release
KARMA effects of action
DHARMA duty
CASTE class/status