families and relationships

• increase in number
• free from sexual immorality
• obey your parents as this pleases the lord
• Lotus Sutra - teaches that men and women have equal ability for enlightenment
• genesis - can literally be interpreted to think that husbands should rule over wives
• Children thrive, grow and develop within the love and safeguarding of a family - CofE website
• do not have sexual relations with a man as one does a women [...] it is detestable
• sex discrimination act 1975 - made gender discrimination illegal in the UK
• role of children:


  support parents when they are old

  love and respect parents

  preserve family traditions (B)
• role of parents


  educate children in the faith

  educate them with positive morals

  love and care for children

  teach children right from wrong