What is MARRIAGE?
*Bogardus describes marriage as an institution
consisting of a man and a woman to live as husband
and wife for the primary purpose of begetting and
rearing children.
*Lunberg says that marriage is a
social unit which emphasizes the
rights, duties, and privileges of
husband and wife, their children,
relatives, and society at large.
* Religious point of view
considers marriage as sacred.
(EPHESIANS 5:21-33)
*Family Code of 1988 defined
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 family life.
Practices of
Selecting Marriage
Partners
1. Endogamy - from the Greek “endon”
meaning “within” prohibits an individual
from marrying outside his/her group.
2. Exogamy - prescribes that a person
should marry outside of his/her own
group, his/her own family or religion.
3. Homogamy - refers to the conscious
or unconscious tendency to select a
mate with personal or cultural
characteristics similar to one’s own,
even if they have major differences.
4. Heterogamy - refers to the
human being’s tendency to choose
a mate with personal characteristics
totally different from, or even
opposite to, one’s own.
5. Levirate - is the practice of requiring
the widow to marry the brother or
nearest male relative of her deceased
husband.
6. Sororate - requires the widower to
marry the sister or nearest female
relative of his deceased wife.
7. Propinquity – refers to nearness of
residence, occupation, location of
work, school or church, and other
forms of physical closeness.
8. Buya - a Filipino term
referring to marriage pre-
arranged by parents to their
offspring while still very young.
9. Parental influence - crushed
by the family institution, and
also by the social pressure
exercised by the village
community as a whole”.
10.Mail-order-bride-system - refers
to the thousands of women who
leave as “brides” every year for
several countries.
Stages of a
Relationship before
Marriage
*Courtship
*Dating
*Engagement
Three Types of Marriage
Transactions:
1. BRIDEWEALTH or
BRIDEPRICE
2. BRIDESERVICE
3. DOWRY
Forms of Marriage:
2 types of polygamy
Rules of Residence
1. Patrilocal residence
2. Matrilocal residence
3. Bilocal residence
4. Neolocal residence
Factors Related to Marital
Success:
1.Family background
2.Socio-economic background
3.Marital role
4.Age
5.Communication
6.Residence
7.Religiosity
THANK
YOU !
Prepared by: GROUP 1
Molero , Janeth
Panara-ag, Norhanifah
Tundag , Geneve
Dumilig , Mylene
Bacolod , Paul