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    The document discusses challenges facing traditional African families and marriages. It notes that changing times, economic hardships, and Western influences have contributed to higher rates of divorce, cohabitation, and out-of-wedlock births. This has weakened family bonds and stability. It recommends potential solutions like attitude changes, curriculum reforms in schools, economic empowerment, and divine intervention to address these issues facing African families.

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    The document discusses challenges facing traditional African families and marriages. It notes that changing times, economic hardships, and Western influences have contributed to higher rates of divorce, cohabitation, and out-of-wedlock births. This has weakened family bonds and stability. It recommends potential solutions like attitude changes, curriculum reforms in schools, economic empowerment, and divine intervention to address these issues facing African families.

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    The document discusses challenges facing traditional African families and marriages. It notes that changing times, economic hardships, and Western influences have contributed to higher rates of divorce, cohabitation, and out-of-wedlock births. This has weakened family bonds and stability. It recommends potential solutions like attitude changes, curriculum reforms in schools, economic empowerment, and divine intervention to address these issues facing African families.

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    Marriage – Holy Union between a man and a woman

    Young girls and boys running away to marry and get married.

    - 1. Traditionally – the institution of marriage was sacred. – held highly by


    society.

    - 2. Bride wealth to dowry

    - 3. Changing times, needs, priorities, careers.

    - 4. Economic Hardships, Sustainability, lack of employment.

    - 5. Education? What is taught nowadays?

    - 6. Western culture-soaps, movies, our children have been influenced at an


    early age.

    - 7. Judicial? Repercussions of divorce? Sharing of wealth?

    - 8. GBV

    - 9. Obligation

    African Family

    1. Reduced morality

    2. Dying generation- country of old people

    3. Economic stagnation?

    Impact on the African Family

    1. Higher rates of divorce, separation.

    2. Cohabitation

    3. Out of wedlock birth

    4. Children residing in female healed household have increased

    5. Delinquency among children

    6. Loose bond among family /extended

    7. Uses economic standing

    8. Crime increased/immorality
    9. Same sex marriages.

    10.

    Way Forward

    1. It’s a world problem not only in Africa.

    RECOMMENDATION

    - Attitude change

    - Curriculum change? Your primary school?

    - Economic empowerment of both? Will it change anything?

    - Divine intervention?

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