Religious teachings about the nature and purpose of families

• family: A group of people who are related by marriage, blood, or adoption and who often live together and share economic resources.
• Same-sex parents: People of the same sex who are raising children together
• Polygamy: the practice of having more than one spouse at a time
• bigamy: The offence of marrying someone while already married to another person
• Exodus: 20:12: Honour your father and your mother
• Procreation 


  producing offspring
• Protection of children 


  Keeping children safe from harm
• Educating children in a faith: Bringing up children according to the religious beliefs of the parents
• gender equality: People of all genders enjoying the same rights and opportunities in all aspects of their lives
• gender prejudice: unfairly judging someone before the facts are known; holding biased opinions about an individual or group based on their gender
• sexual stereotyping: having a fixed general idea or image of how men and women will behave
• gender discrimination: Any practice, policy, or procedure that denies equality of treatment to an individual or to a group because of gender.
• role: behavior expected of someone who holds a particular status