RAMBLE WORDS:

LYAIMF

EGARIMRA

LAIONSPITREHP
1. FAMILY

2. MARRIAGE

3. RELATIONSHIP
 WHAT IS FAMILY?

The FAMILY is the basic social institution

and the primary group in society
Burgess and Locke define the family as a
group of persons united by ties of marriage,
blood or adaptation, constituting a single
household, interacting and communicating
with each other in their respective social
roles of husband and wife, mother and father,
son and daughter, brother and sister and
creating and maintaining a common culture.
KINSHIP refers to the web of social relationships that
form an essential part of the lives in terms of family or
nationality. Being related to the people in your family. A
feeling of being close. Blood relationship
DESCENT transmission or devolution of an estate by
inheritance usually in the descending line. The origin or
background of a person in terms of family or nationality
UNILINEAL SOCIETY is one in which the descent of an
individual is reckoned either from the mother’s or the
father’s line of descent. Tracing descent through either
the maternal or paternal line only.
 MARRIAGE

an important institutional element of the family. The

relationship that exists between husband and a wife.
A ceremony in which two people are married to each
other. The state of being united to a person of the
opposite sex as husband and wife in a consensual
(agreed/done with consent by people involved) and
contractual relationship recognized by law.
On August 3, 1998 the Family Code of the Philippines
took effect. It defines marriage as a special contract
of permanent union between a man and woman
entered into in accordance with law for the
establishment of conjugal and family life.
 1. Legal point of view
(CONTRACT)
2. Religious point of view
(SACRAMENT) an inviolable(too
important to be ignored or
treated with disrespect) bond
between a man and a woman
who take each other as husband
and wife and that can only death
can separate the spouses.
 ANNULMENT

Refers to the legal process of filing a petition

in the appropriate court seeking a judicial
declaration of making marriage null and void.
Art.45. Grounds for annulment of marriage, as
follows:
1. One of the contracting parties is 18 years
of age or over but below 21 and without
parental consent
2. Either party was of unsound mind (Bad
condition)
 ANNULMENT

3. Consent of either party was obtained by

fraud(dishonest) force, and intimidation
(threat)
4. Either party was physically incapable of
consummating(close, conclusion, end) the
marriage with the other, and
5. Either party was afflicted (to cause pain)
with a sexually transmissible disease found
to be serious and incurable.
 LEGAL SEPARATION

Refers to the legal process of filing a

petition in the appropriate court seeking
a judicial declaration of legal separation
for married couples. The legal effect, if
petition is granted, is that the couple are
separated from bed and board but they
cannot re-marry.
A PETITION FOR LEGAL SEPARATION MAY BE
FILED ON ANY OF THE FOLLOWING GROUNDS

1. Repeated physical violence or grossly abusive

conduct directed against the petitioner, a common
child, or a child of the petitioner.
2. Physical violence or moral pressure to compel/force
the petitioner to change religion or political affiliation.
3. Attempt of respondent to corrupt or induce the
petitioner, a common child, or a child of the
petitioner, to engage in prostitution and others
4. Final judgment sentencing the respondent to
imprisonment of more than six years; even if
pardoned.
 5. Drug addiction or habitual alcoholism of the
respondent;
6. Lesbianism or homosexuality of the respondent;
7. Contracting by the respondent of a subsequent
bigamous marriage, whether in the Philippines
or abroad;
8. Sexual infidelity or perversion (sexual behavior);
9. Attempt by the respondent against the life of
the petitioner; or
10. Abandonment of petitioner by respondent
without justifiable cause for more that one year.
FORMS OF MARRIAGE: According to number of spouses or
mates:

1. MONOGAMY marriage between one man and

one woman. It allows or permits a man to take
only one spouse at a time. It has advantage
and emotional tensions.
2. POLYGAMY or PLURAL MARRIAGES is a form
of plural marriage and can assume three forms:
A. Polygyny one husband and two or more
wives. The marriage of one man to two or more
women at the same time. Ex. Muslim nations
FORMS OF MARRIAGE: According to number of spouses or
mates:

B. Polyandry one wife and two or more

husbands. The marriage of a woman to two
or more men at the same time . Ex. Hindu
Todas of Southern India
C. Group Marriage two or more husbands
and two or more wives. Examples:
Kaingang Brazil; the Diere of Australia; the
Chukchee of Siberia; and the Marquesan
Islanders.
NORMS OF MARRIAGE ON THE SELECTION
OF POTENTIAL MARRIAGE PARTNERS

1. ENDOGAMY is a rule that requires a

person to marry someone from within his
or her own group - tribe, nationality,
religion, race, community, or any other
social grouping . Refers to the norm which
dictates that one should marry within one’s
clan or ethnic group. Parents may also
arrange to have their children marry within
the religious group, locality, or social class.
Ex. Marriage between Roman Catholics
 2. EXOGAMY is the rule that requires a
person to marry someone from outside his
or her own group, on the other hand,
prescribes that one can marry outside
one’s clan or ethnic group. Ex. Marriage
between Christian and Muslim
3. SORORATE prescribes that a widower
marry the sister or nearest kin of the
deceased wife.
4. LEVIRATE prescribes that a widow marry
the brother or nearest kin of the
deceased.
 BASIS ON CHOOSING A MARRIAGE
PARTNER

1. PARENTAL SELECTION OR ARRANGED

MARRIAGES families that have important stake
in the type of spouse of their son and daughter
will take usually practice this.
2. ROMANTIC LOVE has become an important
basis for marriage in our society.