Dynamics of Marriage and Family

Dynamics of Marriage and Family 3(3+0)

Lesson 1 : Introduction to Marriage

Views on marriage

• Marriage is an institution in which men and women are admitted to family life, to live in the intimate personal relationship primary for the purpose of begetting and rearing children.
• Marriage is not for sense of enjoyment, but to perpetuate the race.
• Marriage is a social duty towards the family and the community.
• Among Hindus, ‘Marriage is a Sanskara (tradition) and a religious sacrament, not a contract. It is a holy union of the two souls and not simply of two bodies, for the performance of religious rights. It is an indissoluble bond which could be broken only by death’.
• According to Muslims, ‘Marriage’ is an institution ordained for the protection of society, so that human beings may guard themselves from foulness and unchastity. ‘Marriage’ is not a sacrament but a civil contract which promotes a normal family life and the legalization of children’.
• According to Christians, ‘Marriage’ is a voluntary union of life of one man and one woman to the exclusion of others.