Navigating Love in Marriage: Religious, Cultural, and Health Perspectives

1. Lesson 6 • Issues of love in marriage

2. Title: Issues of love in a marriage • Learning Objectives • To understand religious views on marrying for love, parental involvement and race.

3. Should you marry for love? • What other reasons are there for people to marry?

4. Other options • What other ways can people show a commitment to each other in a relationship? • Civil partnership • Live together • An informal ceremony • Jewellery • Tattoos • Children

5. How do YOU know if you have met your life partner?

6. Marriage and Health • On average, husbands and wives are healthier, happier and enjoy longer lives than those who are not married. • Men appear to reap the most physical health benefits from marriage and suffer the greatest health consequences if they divorce. • Married mothers have lower rates of depression than single or cohabiting mothers, probably because they are more likely to receive practical and emotional support from their child’s father and his family

7. Marriage and Wealth • • Married couples build more wealth on average than singles or cohabiting couples. • • Married men earn more money than do single men with similar education and job histories. • • Married women are economically better off than divorced, cohabiting or never-married women.

8. Romantic Love • This may worked for some people but the divorce rate suggests that this may not be a reliable way to chose your life partner. • All religions think LOVE is essential for marriage.

9. Arranged Marriages • In arranged marriages shared values and beliefs are held with high regard and think that love develops from these and not before. • Do you agree?

10. Parental Involvement • Children hope their parents will like their partners. • Parents hope their children will marry someone who will love, support and care for them, be good parents themselves and for religious parent, share or at least respect their child’s religion.

11. Religious Parents • Some religious parents arrange or assist their children’s marriage by looking for someone whose personality will suit their son or daughter or who comes from a family they know. • They will look for a good character, background and education. Someone who is healthy, has good job prospects and shares the same religion. • They may see marriage as uniting two families. • An arranged marriage is not a forced marriage.

12. Religion • Religions prefer people to marry a partner with the same religion. • A Muslim woman must marry a Muslim man. Muslim men can marry a Muslim, Christian or Jew. • Roman Catholics must marry in their church and a non-Catholic partner must allow the children to be raised as Catholics. • An arranged marriage is always with someone of the same religion.

13. What is this website?why does it exist?do you think it is popular?

14. RACE • No religion stops mixed-race marriages. • Everyone is equal and should be shown tolerance and respect. • Buddhists, Christians, Muslims and Sikhs fully accept mixed race marriages.

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18. Exam style questions • Parents know their children well so they are the best ones to chose a partner for the. • How important is it to marry someone who has a similar background to yourself. • Give reasons for your answer.

19. Love

20. Butterflies • How is this marriage portrayed?