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The anthropological dimensions of the preparation of youth for marriage and family
Type of publication
Straipsnis Scopus duomenų bazėje / Article in Scopus database (S1b)
Title
The anthropological dimensions of the preparation of youth for marriage and family
Is part of
Global perspectives on Catholic religious education in schools, Vol. 2: Leaming and leading in a pluralist world / editors Michael T. Buchanan, Adrian-Mario Gellel. Singapore : Springer Nature Ltd., 2019
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2019 |
Publisher
Singapore : Springer Nature Ltd., 2019
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Extent
p. 405-415
Field of Science
Abstract
Today, in the face of cultural challenges, dramatically decreased birth rate and the collapse of marriage and family institution, there is no doubt that preparation of youth for marriage and family (PYMF) is now, more than ever, necessary. The changes that have taken place in almost all modern societies demand that not only the family but also the school and Church be involved in this process. According to John Paul II (1981), this process includes three main stages: remote (mostly in the family), proximate (mostly at school) and immediate (immediately preceding the wedding). This chapter focuses on the proximate stage. In the Lithuanian system of Education, the PYMF is not a separate subject but is integrated mostly in moral education. In Lithuania, moral education is divided into the two subjects—Religion and Ethics. Students choose between ethics and religious education and almost half of the student population choose Catholic Religious Education (CRE) as an optional subject (Pranevičienė & Margevičiūtė, 2012). In CRE the concept of the family is based on the understanding that, the family, a natural society, exists prior to the State … is based on marriage, that intimate union of life in complementarity between a man and a woman … indissoluble bond of matrimony and is open to the transmission of life. (The Holy See, 1983, Preamble, B) Every component of the family as so described is today becoming a real challenge during the proximate stage of preparation of Catholic young people for marriage and family in schools. The ideology of ‘gender’ is the main cause of this because it ‘denies the difference and reciprocity in nature of a man and a woman and envisages a society without sexual differences, thereby eliminating the anthropological basis of the family’ (Pope Francis, 2016, par. 56). [...]
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Language
Anglų / English (en)
Coverage Spatial
Singapūras / Singapore (SG)