FACTORS AFFECT

MARRIAGE AND FAMILY

LIFE

 Custom
 Tradition
 Legislation
Prepared by:
Ellen Mae Sa-a
Joseph Lipang
 MARRIAGE
• Humankind’s most basic and oldest social unit is the family. It
Aspects
Light andofKeller
Marriage:
(1985)
is a social institution primarily established by society to ensure
its continuity and to regulate the sexual behavior of its
members.1.The legal point of view
 The family is the primary group where the child is initially socialized
 Posits
and initiated in thethat marriage
ways of life of is
hisagroup.
contract.
The family
 Marriage as a socially recognized unionprovides
between
2. Religious
the child’s point of view
social, psychological, and emotional needs – warmth,
two or more individualscare thatand
typically involves
 Posits that marriages a sacrament.
intimacy, affection, love, nurturance, security.
 Marriage issexual
another and economic
human rightstoand
construction duties.
insure the continuity of
“What God has put together let no man
the family and the eventual perpetuation of the human species. put
asunder.”
10. Male
Traditional
as provider
6. Children Family Norms Voluntary
Female childless
Nontraditional
as provider
Alternatives
1. The
Legally married of Marriage and
meaning Dual
the careers
Single-hood never
Family married
Issue
7. Two parents living together Single
Non parents
Commuter
marital marriages
cohabitation
Joint custody
11. Male as “head” or authority Step families
Female (3+parents)
as “head”
2. Married once Remarriage
8. Parent as key source of: Androgynous
Multiple marriagerelationships
Education School
12. Self-supporting,
3. Heterosexual
Religion independent
marriage Welfare
Same-sex
a.The most traditional social
Churchesnormmarriage
4. Endogamous marriage Social
Interfaith security
marriage
 views marriage as a sacred
Protection Government-police
phenomenon;
Recreation
13. Premarital chastity Interracial
Clubs,
Pre-or marriage
professional
non-marital sport
inter
the family and the marriage are divine
Interclass marriageand holly
9. Until death course
institutions created andUntil divorceby
maintained or God
separation
or
5. Two-adult households Multi- adult house holds
14. Maritalsome supreme being greater
exclusivity Extra
Communalthan human
marital
living beings.
relationships
Sexuallyfamilies
Affiliated open marriages
Intimate friendship
b. A second traditional norm
Views the meaning of marriage and family as
centering primarily on social obligations.

C. A third traditional norm

 Meaning of marriage suggest that families
and the marital relationship exist for the
individual.
Important Legal Matters on
Marriage
A. ESSENTIAL REQUISITES FOR
C.
B. ANNULMENT OF A MARRIAGE
FORMAL REQUISITES OF MARRIAGE
MARRIAGE
1. Authority of solemnizing officer;
2. A valid
Family Codemarriage license except
of the Philippines in cases provided in
provides:
 Refers
chapter
1.Legal 2hroflegal
tocapacity thisoftitle;
the and
process of filing a parties
contracting petition(18
in the
yrs. or
3. appropriate
Aupwards),
marriage court
ceremony
who must which
seeking takesand
be aa judicial
male place with the
declaration
female; of
and
appearance
making
2. Consent of the
a marriage
freely contracting
null
given and void
in the parties before
abolition
presence of or the the
thefrom
solemnizing
beginning
solemnizing ifofficer
as officer. and their
no marriage tookpersonal
place. declaration that
they take each other as husband and wife in the
presence of not less than two witnesses of legal age.
Enumerates the grounds for annulment of marriage,
D. LEGAL SEPARATION
as follows:

1.One of the contracting parties is 18 yrs. of age or over but

bellow 21 and without parental consent;
2.Either party was of unsound mind;

3.Consent
Refers toofthe
either
legalparty
process
wasof
obtained
filing a petition
by fraud,inforce
the and
intimidation;
appropriate court seeking a judicial declaration of legal
4.Either
separation
partyfor
wasmarried
physically
couples.
incapable of consummating
the marriage with the other; and
5.Either party was afflicted with a sexually transmissible
disease found to be serious and incurable.
A petition for legal separation may be filed on
any of the following grounds:
5.Drug addiction or habitual alcoholism of the
1.Repeated physically violence or grossly abusive conduct
respondent;
directed against the petitioner;
6.Lesbianism or homosexuality of the respondent;
2.Physical violence or moral pressure to compel the
7.Contracting by the respondent of a subsequent
petitioner, apolitical affiliation;
bigamous marriage, whether in the Philippines or
3.Attempt of respondent to corrupt or induce the
abroad;
petitioner, a common child, or a child of the petitioner,
8.Sexual infidelity or perversion;
to engage in prostitution, or connivance in such
9.Attempt by the respondent against the life of the
corruption or inducement;
petitioner; or
4.Final judgment sentencing the respondent to
10.Abandonment of petitioner by respondent without
imprisonment of more than six yrs; even if pardoned;
justifiable cause for more than one year.
NORMS OF MARRIAGE ON THE SELECTION OF POTENTIAL
BASIS ON CHOOSING A MARRIAGE PARTNER
MARRIAGE PARTNERS

1.Endogamy-is
1. Monogamy a rule that requires a person to
marry someonebetween
• Marriage from within
one manhisand
or her own
group—tribe,
one woman. nationality, religion, race
community, or any other social
2. Polygamy or plural marriage grouping.
2.Exogamy-is a rule that requires a person to
marrysomeone
has threefrom
forms:
outside his her own group.
a)Polygyny- onethat
3. Sororate-prescribes husband and twomarry
a widower or more
thewives
sister b)Polyandry-
or nearest kinone wifedecease
of the and twowife.
or more husbands
c)Group marriage-
4.Levirate-prescribes thattwowidows
or more marry
husbands
theand
brothertwo or more
nearest wives.
kin of the deceased husband.
 WHY PEOPLE MARRY
BASIS ON CHOOSING A MARRIAGE PARTNER

11.Unhappy
1)Parental Selection or Arranged Marriages home situation
o Families that have 12.Money
important stake in the type of
1. Love 13.Companionship
spouse their son or daughter will take usually
2. Economic security 14.Protection
practice.
3. Emotional security 15.Adventure
4. Parent’s wishesLove
2) Romantic 16.Sex and sexual attraction
5. Escape fromoloneliness
Romantic love has17.Begetting and rearing
become an important of for
basis
6. Common interest children
7. Parenthood marriage in our society. It is the theme of most of
18.Acceptance responsibility
our popular songs, the subject of many of our
8. Physical attraction 19.Death of a former spouse
9. Compatibilitymovies and television shows, and made active in
20.Care and nurturance
scores
10.Martial bliss and of popular books
happiness and magazine articles.
happiness
 FAMILY
 The basis social institution and the primary group
in society.
Murdock
Burgess
Light (1949)
and
(1985) Locke (1963)
The family as a group of persons united by
The family as a group of people who are
ties of marriage, blood or adoption,
united by ties
constituting of marriage, ancestry, or
The family asa asingle
socialhousehold,
group characterized
interactingby
adoption and who are recognized by the
common residence, economic
and communicating with each cooperation
other in their
community as constituting a single
and reproduction.
respective social roles of husband and wife,
household and as having the responsibility
mother and father, son daughter, brother
for rearing children.
and sister, creating and a common culture
 THEORIES OR PERSPECTIVE ON THE FAMILY

Three Theories
1. The functionalist Perspective
Functions:
 Functionalist says that if a society is to survive and
1.Regulation and sexual
maintain itself 1.Socialization;
across time, certain essential
behavior; 2.Care and protection
functions must
2.Reproduction; be performed.
function;
3.Biological maintenance; 3.Social placement or
group status;
THEORIES OR PERSPECTIVE ON THE FAMILY

2. The
3. Social
Symbolic
control Interactionist
The Conflict Perspective
Perspective
Jetse Sprey (1979)

Direct considerable attention to the

Agree environment
symbolic with the functionalists’ position
in which people
that
carry the
out family
their institution
daily activities.and other
groups in society are organized
systems of species survival.
PATTERNS OF FAMILY ORGAIZATION

A. BASED ON INTERNAL ORGANIZATION OR MEMBERSHIP

 Extended Family
Nuclear Family
a)The family
Is composed of a husband
of the orientation– is and his
the family
wife and
into which their is
a person children in awhere
born and unionhe is
 reared
Is composed
recognized
of two
by the
or socialized. or more
othernuclear
members families,
b) economically
of theofsociety.
The family and socially related
procreation– to eachthat
is the family
other
such person established through marriage and
consists of a husband, a wife, a sons and
daughter.
Two types of family:

2.
1. Consanguineal
Conjugal familyfamily

 Corresponds to the nuclear family

 where
Corresponds
prioritytoisthe extended
given family
to marital
where priority is given to blood ties.
ties.
 B. BASED ON DESCENT

Descent

1.Bilateral descent- involves the reckoning of descent

•through both the father’s and mother’s families
Implies family
2.Patrilineal
genealogicaldescent-
ties involves the reckoning of descent
through thewith
of a person father’s
a family only.
3.Matrilineal descent- involves the reckoning of descent
particular group
of kinsfolk.
through the mother’s family only.
 C. BASE ON
Concepts toRESIDENT
Master
1.Patrilocal -the married couple live with or near the
husband’s family.
2.Matrilocal–the husband
1.Family leaves his family and sets up
Planning
housekeeping with or near
2.Responsible his wife’s family.
Parenthood
3.Neolocal-the married couple
3.Population establish a new home; they
Education
reside independently of the parents of either groom or
4.Sex Education
bride. 5.Contraception
4.Bilocal- it gives the couple adevices
6.Contraceptive choice of staying with either
the groom’s parents or the bride’s parents.
 1. FAMILY PLANNING
•Family planning experts define family planning as the
process Family planning
by which involves
responsible andthree main
mature aspects:
couples, if
they wish, determine by themselves the timing,
proper spacing and number of the children born to
them.
1. Responsible parenthood
2. Proper spacing of children
3. Birth control
2. NORMS ON FAMILY PLANNING

b) Medical Norms
a) Sociological Norms

Family planning through the use of contraceptives provides

Family planning is the process whereby, through
protection against unwanted pregnancies. Contraceptives
interaction, married couples arrive
work to prevent the meeting of the egg sperm. Family at an
intelligent decision in the number of
planning is concerned with the regulation of human children
they could provide with quality life.
reproductive capacity. It involves the prevention of
unwanted births by contraceptive techniques, or by
reducing the length of exposure to pregnancy in order to
protect the well-being of the mother, of the family, or of
the larger population.
D)C.
E)Ecclesiastical Norms
Legal-Juridical
Psychological Norms
Norms

• All the
Family major has
planning religions of the world
psychological believe
bearing on in the
 guiding which
Government
problems principle thatofafamily
support
confront couple
the has a right
planning.
young today to limit
brought
family
about bysize.
their development stage and the sexual
 The Roman
revolution Catholic
in the presentChurch
times. is not against family
planning but categorically condemns the use of
artificial methods as they are against the natural
laws. The Catholic Church only accepts the
withdrawal, abstinence, and rhythm or calendar
method.
 4. CONTRACEPTION (BIRTH CONTROL METHODS AND
3. POPULATION POLICY AND PORGRAMS
TECHNIQUES)
Population education is the process of developing

awareness and is
Reproduction understanding of population
the basic biological reason situations
for sexual as
well as rational
intercourse. attitude
However, most and behavior
people enjoy sextoward
and do notthose
situations for the attainment
want to conceive every timeofthey
highhave
quality
sex.ofThere
life for
arethe
individual, the family,
many reasons. They the
maycommunity, the nation, and
wish to concentrate on athe
world.
career, they may already have too many children in the
Congress, through
family, or suffer fromR.A. 6365,
certain created,
health the or
problems, Population
dislike
Commission
babies, or fell(POPCOM)
too younginor 1971. Main
old, and Goal: To enhance
so on.
national development by meeting the social challenge of a
high rate of population growth.
5. Literature on contraception and birth control
gives the following methods and techniques:
1.Chemical Methods

a) Pillb)
C.or“Morning-After
Oral Contraceptive
Implants Pill”
A tablet made of man-made hormones (estrogen
• Six
and progesterone)
matchstick-size mimicking
rubber the
silicone ones
rods,
A form of emergency birth control. Emergency your
tubes body
produces
or capsulesmonthlycan on
containing
contraception its own.
progestin
prevent It’s is offrom
or
a woman two getting
kinds:
COCs or combined
progesterone.
pregnant evenAafter oral
physician contraceptives
surgically
unprotected andmethod
implants
sex. This POPs oris
progesterone
them under the only
skin, pills
usually (mini
on the pills).
upper
especially helpful for those who have been raped orThese are
available
arm.
whose in over-the
main counter
birth control or prescription
methods forms.
have failed.
2. Sterilization or Surgical Method

i.
ii. Tubal Ligation
In sterilization,
Vasectomy the eggs or sperm are prevented from going
anywhere by cutting, knotting or blocking the tubes along
which  they normally
Female travel. This
sterilization is donetying,
involves by a small surgical
cutting or
operation in the
 searing
Male hospital
the or clinic.
two involves
sterilization fallopian Its effectiveness
tubes
tying, or oviducts
cutting is via
or searing 99% to
100%. survey
the twoso that the passageway
vasdeferens, the tubes which to carry
the uterus
sperm is
blocked. It is ato
from the testes more or less
the penis, to permanent surgical
prevent the sperm
method forwith
from mixing women. The fluid.
the seminal operation is minor,
It is a more or
leaving a small
less permanent or scar on the
irreversible lower
surgical abdomen.
method for
Most
men women can leave the hospital on the
same day, or a day or two later.
iii.iv. 6. CURRENT
Mechanical
Natural orRESEARCH
Family
Barrier ON
Planning BIRTH CONTROL
Methods
Methods

 A contraceptive vaccine for men currently in

A newbarrier
The male condom
development contains
methods madea
of of polyurethane
hormone
contraception thatput isa
appears to
oneAlso type
called of
fertility
birth awareness,
control refers to under
currently
interfere
physical
methods with
barrier
for the production
between
planning andsperm of both
and
preventing sperm
egg, so and
that the male
development.
sex
two hormone
cannot Diaphragms
meet.testosterone. may one day
Vaginal include
rings that deliver
pregnancies
afemale by observation
one-size-fits-all device ofand
the naturally
disposable,
occurringsex hormones
signs and are
symptoms another
of potential
the fertile method for
spermicide
preventing –releasing diaphragms
pregnancy. These mayrubber
silicone also berings fit in
and infertile
developed. phases of the menstrual cycle.
the vagina and release a steady supply
Intercourse is avoided during the fertile phase of hormones
progestin-only
if pregnancy isvaginal rings The
not desired. would be worn continuously
natural
while those containing both estrogen
methods rely on timing rather that artificial and progestin
would be worn
aids or surgery. for three weeks and then removed for
one week to allow menstrual bleeding in the same
pattern as combined oral contraceptives.
SUMMARY

Another aspect of family planning is birth control. Various

methods and techniques of contraception are available
Family planning is the process by which responsible
 There
today. Theseareinclude:
several Chemical
norms onMethod, Sterilization
family planning: theor
couples determine by themselves the timing, proper
Surgical Method, Mechanical
sociological norms, theor medical
Barrier Methods,
norms, Natural
legal-
spacing and number of children born to them with
Family Planning
juridical Methods,
norms, the and the Intra-Uterine
ecclesiastical norms Devices.
and the
the aim of giving them quality life. It involves three
psychological norms. These norms provide various
aspects: responsible parenthood, proper spacing of
views and perspectives on family planning.
children, and birth control.
The End