Marriage is defined as a legally recognized union between two individuals, typically a man and a woman, that involves sexual, economic, and child-rearing rights and duties. A family is a social unit consisting of parents and children that live together and fulfill various roles. Modern trends like increasing divorce and single parenthood present challenges to traditional family structures by reducing positive role models for children and decreasing family bonding and responsibility, which can contribute to issues like delinquency and crime.

2. DEFINITION AND NATURE OF MARRIAGE AND
FAMILY
MARRIAGE
As a special contract of permanent union between a man and a woman entered into in
aacordance with law for establishment of conjugal and family life.
-Light and Keller (1985) defines marriage as a socially recognized union between two or more
individuals that typically inbvolves sexual and ecomic rights and duties.

3. TWO VIEWS AND ASPECTS OF MARRIAGE
1. Marriage is a contract.
2.Marriage is a sacrement

4. FAMILY
As a social and economic unit that consist of one or more parents and their children.
-Burgess and Locke (1963) define the family as group of persons united by ties of marriage,blood
or adoption,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, creating and maintaining a common culture.

5. IMPORTANCE OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY
The family provides the childs social ,psychological,and emotional needs-
warmth,intimacy,affect,love,affection,nurturance,care and security.
Marriage is systematized and institutionalized for the purpose of begetting and
rearing children and the regulation od sexual behavior.

6. CONDITION OF RELATIONSHIP OR KINSHIP IN
THE FAMILY
A.KINSHIP BY BLOOD
1.BASED ON DESCENT
a. Bilateral descent
b. Patrilineal descent
c. Matrilineal descent
2.Based on Internal Organization or Membership
a. Nuclear family
b. Extended Family

7. CONDITION OF RELATIONSHIP OR KINSHIP IN
THE FAMILY
3. Based on Authority
a. Patriarchy
b. Matriarchy
c. Equalitarian or egalitarian
d. Matricentric
B. KINSHIP BY MARRIAGE OR MARRIAGE RULES
1.ACCORDING TO NUMBER OF SPOUSES OR MATES
a. Monogamy
b. Polygamy or plural marriages

8. CONDITION OF RELATIONSHIP OR KINSHIP IN
THE FAMILY
2. Based on Residence
a. Endogamhy
b. Exogamy
3. Socorate
4. Levirate
C. Kinship by Ritual
1. Ritual of marriage of ones son or daughter
2. Ritual by Baptism

9. WHY PEOPLE MARRY
1. LOVE
2. ECONOMIC SECURITY
3. EMOTIONAL SECURITY
4. PARENTS WISHES
5. ESCAPE FROM LONESLINESS
6. COMMON INTERESTS
7. PARENTHOOD
8. PHYSICAL ATTRACTIONCOMPATIBILITY
10. MARITSL BLISS AND HAPPINESS
11. UNHAPPY HOME SITUATION
12. MONEY
13. COMPANIONSHIP PROTECTION
15. ADVENTURE
16. SEX AND SEXUAL ATTRACTION
1. BEGETTING AND REARING OF CHILDREN
18. ACCEPTANCE OF RESPONSIBILITY
19. DEATH OF A FORMER SPOUSE
20. CARE AND NURTURANCE

10. FUNCTION OF FAMILY
1. REGULATION OF SEXUAL BEHVAIOUR
2. REPRODUCTION;
3. BIOLOGICAL MAINTENANCE
4. SOCIALIZATION
5. CARE AND PROTECTION
6. SOCIAL PLACEMENT OR GROUP STATUS
7. SOCIAL CONTROL

11. ISSUES AND PROBLEMS THAT CONFRONT
THE FILIPINO FAMILY
1. FAMILY DISORGANIZATION
2. ABORTION
3. COHIBITATION
4. EXTRA-MARITAL RELATIONS
5. SINGLE PARENTHOOD
6. WORKING MOTHERS
7. DRUG ADDICTION
8. JUVENILE DELINQUENCY
9. MALNUTRION
10. SQUATTERISM
11. EARLY MARRIAGE
12. CHID ABUSE
13. WIFE BATTERING
14. ABANDONMENT
15. POVERTY
16. PROBLEMS OF THE AGED
17. PROBLEMS WITH IN-LAWS
18. RUNAWAY KIDS
19. HEALTH PROBLEMS

12. CHANGES AND CHALLENGES OUR FAMILIES
FACE TODAY
Marriage are dissolving with increasing frequency due to abandonment,separation,family
squabbles and disorganization.
Unwed motherhood and singleparenthood are increasingly common.
Workingh mothers are carrying increasing economic responsibility for their children.
The onset of the “electronic age”, Children turn to computer ,internet,radio,television,audio and
videotapes as their information source of up-to-moment information on
trends,values,manners,customs, or ethics.

13. GENERAL RESULTS OF THESE CHANGES AND
MODERN TRENDS
These changes and modern trends brought about by advanced technology create fewer positive
role model relationships,less sense of community,less development of family relationships,less
sense of bonding and responsibility.It results in greater disciplinary problems,delinquency and
crime.
More and more children live with just one parents.parents spend less and less time with their
children.More and more high school and college students are working part time.We have more
and more kids who come home to an empty house in the afternoon.child are centers bulging to the
seams.kids without a sense of belonging and teens spending increased time on the job.Theres no
one left to give the emotional nurturing,the support,the sharing of values,the discipline and
responsibility of our nations kids.