1. MR. DANILO F. MARIBAO
Bearer of Light and Wisdom Colleges
2013
2. MARRIAGE
NATURE AND DEFINITION OF MARRIAGE
Humankind’s most basic and oldest social unit is
the family. It is a social institution primarily
established by society to ensure its continuity
and to regulate the sexual behavior of its
members.
The family is the primary group where the child
is initially socialized and initiated in the ways of
life of his group. The family provides the child’s
social, psychological, and emotional needs –
warmth, intimacy, affection, love, nurturance,
care and security.
3. Marriage is another human construction to
insure the continuity of the family and the
eventual perpetuation of the human specie.
The New Family Code of the Philippines, which
became effective on August 3,1998, defines
Marriage as a special contract of permanent
union between a man and a woman entered into
in accordance with law for the establishment of
conjugal and the family life.
4. Light and Keller (1985)
defines marriage as a socially recognized
union between two or more individuals that
typically involves sexual and economic rights
and duties.
They further elucidated their view of marriage.
“Marriage is a business partnership as much as a
romantic fairytale; it involves compromises,
division of labor, specialization, financial
arrangement, and communication systems.”
5. Aspects of Marriage:
First, the legal point of view
posits that marriage is a contract.
Second, religious point of view
posits that marriages a sacrament.
“What God has put together let no man put
asunder.”
6. The meaning of Marriage and the Family Issue
a. The most traditional social norm
views marriage as a sacred phenomenon;
that is, the family and the marriage are
divine and holly institutions created and
maintained by God or some supreme
being greater than human beings.
7. Traditional Family Norms Nontraditional Alternatives
1. Legally married Single-hood never married
Non marital cohabitation
2. Married once Remarriage
Multiple marriages
3. Heterosexual marriage Same-sex marriage
4. Endogamous marriage Interfaith marriage
Interracial marriage
Interclass marriage
5. Two-adult households Multi-adult house holds
Communal living
Affiliated families
6. Children Voluntary childless
7. Two parents living together Single parents
Joint custody
Step families (3+ parents)
8. 8. Parent as key source of:
Education
Religion
Protection
Recreation
School
Churches
Government-police
Clubs, professional sport
9. Until death Until divorce or separation
10. Male as provider Female as provider
Dual careers
Commuter marriages
11. Male as “head” or authority Female as “head”
Androgynous relationships
12. Self supporting, independent Welfare
Social security
13. Premarital chastity Pre-or non marital inter course
14. Marital exclusivity Extra marital relationships
Sexually open marriages
Intimate friendships
9. b. A second traditional norm
views the meaning of marriage and family as
centering primarily on social obligations.
c. A third
meaning of marriage suggest that families and
the marital relationship exist for the
individual.
10. IMPORTANT LEGAL MATTERS ON
MARRIAGE
A. ESSENTIAL REQUISITES FOR
MARRIAGE
Family Code of the Philippines provides:
Art. 2: No marriage shall be valid,
unless these essential requisites are present:
1. Legal capacity of the contracting parties
(18 yrs. or upwards), who must be a male
and female; and
2. Consent freely given in the presence of the
solemnizing officer.
11. B. FORMAL REQUISITES OF MARRIAGE
Art.3. the formal requisites of marriage are:
1. Authority of solemnizing officer;
2. A valid marriage license except in cases provided in
chapter 2 of this title; and
3. A marriage ceremony which takes place with the
appearance of the contracting parties before the
solemnizing officer and their personal declaration that
they take each other as husband and wife in the
presence of not less than two witnesses of legal age:
Art.4.The absence of any of the essential or formal
requisites shall render the marriage “void ab initio” (void
from the beginning) except as stated in Article 35(a).
12. C. ANNULMENT OF A MARRIAGE
ANNULMENT
refers to hr legal process of filing a petition in
the appropriate court seeking a judicial
declaration of making a marriage null and void
ab initio or from the beginning as if no marriage
took place.
13. Art.45.Enumerates the grounds for
annulment of marriage, 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 of either party was obtained by
fraud, force and intimidation;
4. Either party was physically 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.
14. D. LEGAL SEPARATION
Legal Separation- refers to the legal process of
filling a petition in the appropriate court seeking a
judicial declaration of legal separation for married
couples.
Art.55. A petition for legal separation may be filed
on any of the following grounds:
1. Repeated physically violence or grossly abusive
conduct directed against the petitioner;
2. Physical violence or moral pressure to compel the
petitioner, apolitical affiliation;
3. Attempt of respondent to corrupt r induce the
petitioner, a common child, or a child of the
petitioner, to engage in prostitution, or connivance
in such corruption or inducement;
15. 4. Final judgment sentencing the respondent to
imprisonment of more than six yrs; 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;
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.
16. 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.
2. Exogamy-is a rule that requires a person to
marry someone from outside his her own group.
3. Sororate-prescribes that a widower marry the
sister or nearest kin of the decease wife.
4. Levirate-prescribes that widows marry the
brother nearest kin of the deceased husband.
17. FORMS OF MARRIAGE
1. Monogamy
marriage between one man and one woman.
2. Polygamy or plural marriage
has three forms:
a) Polygyny- one husband and two or more
wives
b) Polyandry- one wife and two or more
husbands
c) Group marriage- two or more husbands and
two or more wives.
18. BASIS ON CHOOSING A MARRIAGE
PARTNER
1. Parental Selection or Arranged Marriages
Families that have important stake in the type of
spouse their son or daughter will take usually
practice.
2. Romantic Love
Romantic love has become an important basis
for marriage in our society. It is the theme of
most of our popular songs, the subject of many
of our movies and television shows, and made
active in scores of popular books and magazine
articles.
19. WHY PEOPLE MARRY
1. Love 11. Unhappy home situation
2. Economic security 12. Money
3. Emotional security 13. Companionship
4. Parent’s wishes 14. Protection
5. Escape from loneliness 15. Adventure
6. Common interest 16. Sex and sexual attraction
7. Parenthood 17. Begetting and rearing of
8. Physical attraction children
9. Compatibility 18. Acceptance responsibility
10. Martial bliss and 19. Death of a former spouse
happiness 20.Care and nurturance
happiness
20. DEFINITION AND NATURE OF FAMILY
The family is the basis social institution and the
primary group in society.
Burgess and Locke (1963)
define the family as a 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 daughter, brother and
sister, creating and a common culture.
21. Light (1985) - defines the family as a group of
people who are united by ties of marriage,
ancestry, or adoption and who are recognized by
the community as constituting a single household
and as having the responsibility for rearing
children.
Murdock (1949) –defines the family as a
social group characterized by common
residence, economic cooperation and
reproduction.
22. THEORIES OR PERSPECTIVE ON
THE FAMILY
Three Theories:
1. The functionalist Perspective
Functionalist says that if a society is to survive and
maintain itself across time, certain essential functions
must be performed.
Functions:
a) Regulation and sexual behavior;
b) Reproduction;
c) Biological maintenance;
d) Socialization;
e) Care and protection function;
f) Social placement or group status;
g) Social control.
23. 2. The Conflict Perspective
Jetse Sprey (1979), agree with the functionalists’
position that the family institution and other
groups in society are organized systems of
species survival.
3. The Symbolic Interactionist Perspective
The symbolic interationist direct considerable
attention to the symbolic environment in which
people carry out their daily activities.
24. PATTERNS OF FAMILY ORGAIZATION
A. BASED ON INTERNAL ORGANIZATION OR
MEMBERSHIP
1. Nuclear Family
is composed of a husband and his wife and
their children in a union recognized by the
other members of the society.
a) The family of the orientation – is the
family into which a person is born and where he
is reared or socialized.
b) The family of procreation – is the family
that such person established through marriage
and consists of a husband, a wife, a sons and
daughter.
25. 2. Extended Family – is composed of two or more nuclear
families, economically and socially related to each other.
Linton (Murdock 1949)
Two types of family:
Conjugal family
corresponds to the nuclear family where priority is given
to marital ties.
Consanguineal family
corresponds to the extended family where priority is
given to blood ties.
26. B. BASED ON DESCENT
Descent
implies family genealogical ties of a person with
a particular group of kinsfolk.
1. Bilateral descent- involves the reckoning of
descent through both the father’s and mother’s
families
2. Patrilineal descent- involves the reckoning
of descent through the father’s family only.
3. Matrilineal descent- involves the reckoning
of descent through the mother’s family only.
27. C. BASE ON RESIDENCE
1. Patrilocal -the married couple live with or near
the husband’s family.
2. Matrilocal –the husband leaves his family and
sets up housekeeping with or near his wife’s
family.
3. Neolocal-the married couple establish a new
home; they reside independently of the parents
of either groom or bride.
4. Bilocal- it gives the couple a choice of staying
with either the groom’s parents or the bride’s
parents.
