Dynamics of Marriage and Family

Dynamics of Marriage and Family 3(3+0)

Lesson 1 : Introduction to Marriage

Purposes of marriage

• Make sexual intercourse legitimate, restraining it within bounds, consistent with the perpetuation of the species.
• Experience the joy of setting up new home, sex, birth and rearing of children, new relationship to each other and to community.
• Fulfill the desire for security, accumulation of property, education of children, and provision for old age.
• Gratify the desire for recognition of the individual status in the family and for personal achievement.
• Escape from unpleasant home conditions and perpetuation of family name.
• Biological, emotional, social and spiritual fulfillment and development, which can’t be achieved in isolation.