Relationships

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Relationships

• Teaching and Learning

WJEC GCSE Specification B (Option
A) Relationships Module
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Relationships

• ISSUES
• Love, Marriage, Divorce

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Religious beliefs, values and traditions

• Religious Teachings

• Religious marriage ceremonies

• Pre and extra-marital relationships

• Contraception

• Marriage

• Divorce

• Remarriage

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Key Concepts

• commitment
• responsibilities
• reconciliation
• conflict

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Topic Learning

• What commitments do we have to other people?
• What responsibilities do we have towards
  others?
• Love sexual affection, love of family
• Marriage and alternatives
• Why do marriages succeed and fail?
• Divorce

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Buddhism core content

• Life of the Buddha and detachment from wife

• Celibacy

• Life of monks and nuns regarded as superior

• Marriage religious and non-religious occasion
  use of scripture reflects local culture and custom

• The Five/Ten precepts

• Individual decision making founded within and
  beyond precepts

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Christianity core content

• Sex and marriage are gifts from God
  Matthew 19 vs 4-6

• Sexual desire should be channelled into marriage
  1 Corinthians7 vs 9

• Marriage vows

• Humanae Vitae and a non-Catholic view on
  contraception

• Adultery, separation and divorceMatthew 19 vs
  91 Corinthians 7 vs 10 11

• Two contrasting attitudes to divorce among
  Christians

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Hinduism core content

• Pre-marital relationships strictly regulated by
  family

• Arranged marriages

• Love marriages

• The samskara of marriage ritual and commitments
  (dharma, artha, kama)

• Divorce permitted but uncommon

• Contraception allowed social and economic
  factors more influential than religious

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Islam core content

• Sex and marriage to reflect the will of Allah
  Surah 3020

• Arranged marriages

• Marriage contract and dowry

• Polygamy and justice to each wifeSurah 43

• Adultery
  Surah 1734

• Divorce conditions, Iddah and provision for his
  wife

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Judaism core content

• Man and woman made for each other
  Genesis 2 vs 18

• Marriage is necessary to bring children into the
  world Isaiah 45 vs 18

• Marriage vows, ketubah

• Rabbinical judgements on contraception

• Adultery and divorce
  Exodus 20 vs
  14Deuteronomy 24 vs 1-4

• The Bet din the Get

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Sikhism core content

• Importance to a Sikh of being married

• Marriage a spiritual and physical union
  Adi Granth 788

• Sex only permitted within marriage Adi Granth
  56/274

• Marriage ceremony centrality of Guru Granth
  Sahib Javan hymn

• Grounds for divorce

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Celebration
WJEC GCSE Specification A Celebration Module
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Christianity

• Rites of Passage
• Marriage
• Ceremony
• Vows

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Hinduism

• Rites of Passage
• Marriage
• Betrothal
• Ceremony

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Islam

• Rites of Passage
• Marriage
• Nikkah (contract)
• Mahr (marriage gift)

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Judaism

• Rites of Passage
• Marriage
• Features of the ceremony
• Huppah
• Ketubah

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Morality and Lifestyle

• Family life rights, roles and duties of men,
  women and children

• Nature and purpose of marriage

• Separation, divorce and remarriage

• Marriage outside religion

• Purpose of sex

• Birth control, pre-marital sex, adultery,
  homosexuality

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