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PREPARATION FOR THE SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE

October 17, 2023
CHRISTIAN
PARENTING
Your Christian Marriage is the
beginning of another phase in
your life when you become
PARENTS.
EXPECTATIONS
1. Understand Christian
parenting as a
VOCATION that
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Families are facing the
following issues and
concern:
1. Broken homes due to
unfaithfulness and frequent
quarreling of husband and wife
(violence against women and
children).
 Understand Christian
Families are facing
parenting as a the
following issues
VOCATION demands and
concern:
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2. Solo parenting due to separation
(either because of work (OFW) or
second family) and unwed mothers.
Families are facing the
following issues and
concern:

3. Poverty due to jobless parents;

vices and substance abuse of
parents.
SERIOUS PROBLEMS
AFFECTING OUR
CHILDREN

Drug and
substance
abuse/user
 SERIOUS PROBLEMS
AFFECTING OUR
CHILDREN
Neglected and
malnourished
children
SERIOUS PROBLEMS
AFFECTING OUR
CHILDREN

Abortion
and
(infanticide)
SERIOUS PROBLEMS
AFFECTING OUR
CHILDREN

Teenage
pregnancy due to
premarital sex
SERIOUS PROBLEMS
AFFECTING OUR
CHILDREN

Juvenile
deliquency
SERIOUS PROBLEMS
AFFECTING OUR
CHILDREN

Victims of rape
and incestuous
relationships
SERIOUS PROBLEMS
AFFECTING OUR
CHILDREN

Uneducated and
child labor including
trafficking
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be good have loving,

husband/wife well-behaved
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and parent
children
DIFFERENT WAYS OF
PARENTING

Authoritative Permissive

Democratic
 Supportive and often
in tune with their
children’s needs, set
firm limits and
enforce them.
Control their
children’s behavior
and don’t accept
Authoritative
their viewpoints.
Parenting
 Permissive Parenting
Parents are not demanding.
Children are allowed to regulate
their behavior and majority of their
choices, treat their children as
equal.
 Democratic
Parenting
Parents guide the child’s development in an
accepting but steady manner and foster a climate
in which cooperation, fairness, equality, and
mutual respect between parent and child are
assumed.
 CHRISTIAN
PARENTING is

Responsible
fatherhood and
motherhood of
Christian parents
 CHRISTIAN
PARENTING is

Commitment to
promote the dignity
of marriage and
family
 CHRISTIAN
PARENTING is

Vocation to married
life and responsible
Christian parenting
 CHRISTIAN
PARENTING is
Two-fold role of being a husband/wife and father/mother to
children
 Values in Parenthood:

To be able to practice Christian

parenting, we need to have the FIVE (5)
VALUES in parenthood. These are:
Values in Parenthood:

1. Spiritual Activity
Values in Parenthood:

2. Respect for Human Life

Values in Parenthood:

3. Nurture and Respect for Life

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Values in Parenthood:
4. Appreciation of wife and husband as
person
Values in Parenthood:
5. Responding to responsible procreation
 “Since parents have conferred life to
their children, they have a most solemn
obligation to educate their offspring.
Parents are to create an atmosphere so
animated with love and reverence for
God and others that a well-rounded
personal and social development will
be fostered among the children.”
Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Decree on
the Apostolate of the Laity
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