The Adolescent and Anti- Family Issues

Marriage and the Family

Mt. 19: 1-12- presents Christ in a gesture of forbidding adultery and divorce in marriage thus upholding even from the very beginning the sanctity and fidelity of the married couple, as well as indissolubility of marriage.

•Marriage- a powerful sign of love that brings a couple closer to Christ and to each other. It is a vocation, a calling that is not for everyone.

Christ and the Church

Groom and the Bride

The Family, Church at Home

• A man and a woman united in marriage, together with their children, form a family.

• Its members are persons equal in dignity. For the common good of its members and of society, the family necessarily has manifold responsibilities, rights, and duties.

• Christian family- Church in the home

- The primary community of Christ’s disciples whose members are bound are bound together not only by ties of flesh and blood but by the grace but by the grace and obedience to the Father’s will.

“ The family is where the journey in faith- life is initiated and guided towards maturity. Within the family assisted by educational institutions, social conscience is formed, and the life of worship and prayer is nurtured and integrated with the sacramental life.

Duties of Children

1. Respect for parents (filial piety)

- Filial respect is shown by true docility and obedience.

- Filial respect promotes harmony in all of family life.

2. As long as the child lives at home with his parents, the child should obey his parents in all they ask of him when it is for his good or that of the family.

- This respect has its roots in the fear of God, one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

. Give their parents material and moral support in old age and in times of illness, loneliness or distress.

4. Contribute to the growth in holiness of their parents.

Duties of Parents

1. Procreation2. Moral obligation for the

education and spiritual formation of their children.

- To educate their children is primordial and inalienable.

- To teach their children to avoid compromising and degrading influences which threaten both human and society.

3. Respect their children as human person.

- Regard children as children of God.

4. Create a home where tenderness, forgiveness, respect, fidelity and disinterested service are the rules.

5. Give good example to their children.

6. Evangelize their children.a. Bring up their children in the

discipline and instruction of the Lord.

b. Parents should be the “first heralds” for their children.

c. Teach their children to pray and to discover their vocation as children of God.

- Family members help one another to grow in faith by the witness of a Christian life in keeping with the Gospel.

- The parish as the Eucharistic community and the heart of the liturgical life of Christian families.

Christian family- a privileged place for the catechesis of children and parents.

- The first school of discipleship.

- Family home- Rightly called the

“Domestic Church”

Rights of the Family

1. The right to exist and progress as a family, even if he or she is poor, to found a family and to have adequate means to support it;

2. The right to exercise its responsibility regarding the transmission of life and to educate children;

3. The right to the intimacy of conjugal and family life;

4. The right to bring up children in accordance with the family’s own traditions and religious and cultural values, with the necessary instruments, means and institutions;

5. The right to protect minors by adequate institutions and legislation from harmful drugs, pornography, alcoholism, etc.

6. The right of the elderly to a worthy life and a worthy death.

Anti- Family Issues

1. Divorce2. Abortion,

sterilization and contraception

3. Free- union or living in

4. Trial marriage5. Adultery