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• Dating can enhance relational skills, socialization

  with people, and coping with infatuations. Makes teens learn more about intimacy, expressing their emotions with the opposite sex,

  and dealing with rejection and pain.
• Some teenagers establish close friendships with a wide

  range of people.
• Others may be too shy to go dating and need to

  develop their self-confidence.
• Whatever the decision of the teen, proper

  guidance should be given to them by their parents
• "Pwede ba kitang ligawan?"

  (May I court you?)

  This is the Filipino way of courting; it is to ask

  permission to woo the woman.
• The traditional Filipino way of courting is to visit the

  woman at home in the evening and talk with their parents

  nearby.
• allowed to date but with a chaperone - maybe the

  mother, a sibling, a friend, or other trusted adults.
• Courtship is the period in a couple's relationship

  which precedes their engagement and marriage or it

  is an establishment of an agreed relationship of a

  more enduring kind.
• It can be an informal

  and private matter between two people or even

  declared publicly in the presence of their families and

  friends.
• twenty-first century, we have

  witnessed a great increase in technological advances,

  affecting lifestyles in various ways.
• pamamanhikan where the man and his family visit

  the woman's family and ask blessings from the parents

  to marry their daughter.
• Marriage is a lifelong partnership and bond between a

  man and a woman
• Filipinos view marriage as a sacrament

  and a lifelong commitment
• Faithfulness to the family is a tradition that is a

  characteristic of Filipino society.
• The Family Code of the 1987 Philippine

  Constitution states that: "The marriage is a special

  contract of permanent union between a man and a

  woman entered into by law
• The ceremony may be officiated either by a religious

  official, by a government official, or by a

  state-approved celebrant.
• One should make sure that he/she isgetting married for

  the right reason.
• Maturity is a key factor to successful marriage.
• Marrying at the age of maturity saves a lot of pain and

  problems.
• Fidelity-who is sincere and true to his/her promise; faithful to his/her

  partner.
• Commitment-The one who is dedicated to his/her responsibilities, and stands

  for what is right and good for the relationship
• Love-one who understands and accepts his/her partner; endures

  and makes the relationship last.
• Love chooses to focus on the positive and the good
• Loving couples talk about resolving the negative happenings

  and unfavorable characteristics
• Economics-provides the needs of the family; financially

  stable.
• Poverty is a major risk factor in marriages.
• Money is not the main priority in a marriage, but

  financial problems can have disastrous consequences.
• Character-God-fearing; honest and sincere; respectful and

  compassionate.
• Couples who have any religious affiliation of any kind have

  lesser marital problems and/or divorce risk (about 14%)
• Fixed or arranged marriages were common in many countries until

  the eighteenth century.
• The marriages are usually fixed by the parents, grandparents, or

  other older and respected relatives ormembers of the community.
• Pikot-forced marriage or shotgun marriage where one gets

  married against his/her free will.
• Buya-parents' prearranged or preplanned future marriage of

  their child. The married couple does not go through the usual dating

  and courting stages of a relationship.
• They are too young to get married.

  Parents disapprove of the relationship.

  They are not financially ready for the wedding expenses.

  Premarital pregnancy occurred.
• Dowry-process wherein the property of the parent is distributed to

  a daughter at her marriage rather than at the holder's death (mortis

  causa).
• Dowry-economic and social status is much more important for a

  successful match-especially among the upper class.
• Anti Mail-Order-Bride Law in the Philippines Republic Act 6955,

  also known as the "Anti Mail-Order-Bride" law
• Anti Mail-Order-Bride prohibits in the Philippines the business of

  organizing or facilitating marriages between Filipinos

  and foreign men.
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