FAMILY LIFE AND SEX EDUCATION - PAULBZ 103

Starting with the Right Thing in Mind

 Course appreciation is the best way to start the subject right.

Course Description
 This deals mainly with the basic concepts on the sacrament of marriage and the
institution of the family as designed by God. Marriage as an important element
of the family and family as the basic unit of society and the foundation of a
nation.
 It presents how important family experiences and relationships that are
permanent and marked by mutual respect, joy and love. It also tackles about
human sexuality which is an essential dimension of the whole person.

Course Outcomes
 Explain the theology of marriage, the nature and purpose of marriage according
to the Church teachings and the family code including the Christian view of
human sexuality.
 Actualize the Paulinian in the family who values Christian Filipino family who is
Christ-centered, family-oriented, knows how to manage family life and taking
good care of the gift of sexuality.

INTRODUCTION
 The family is significant to the foundation of society. From the family, we can
produce quality people who can build a better nation through the support of the
parents who can help promote a strong family and a stable nation by fostering in
them the values and virtues.

FR. JAIME BULATAO

Philippine Values: The Manileños
Mainsprings Philippine Studies
Vol. 10, 1962
Ateneo de Manila University
The family is seen as having a double function.
1st - It provides an outlet for the needs of a person to get out of himself and come
into contact with another person in a free and unguarded emotional exchange.
2nd – It provides understanding, acceptance, a place where, no matter how far or
how wrongly one has wandered, he can always return.

FAMILY
 It is the basic unit of society.
 The Philippine Family Code or Executive Order No. 2009 refers to the family as
the “foundation of the nation,” a sole propertyowning unit with authority over
its member.

The 1987 Constitution affirms

 state recognition of the sanctity of family life and as such, the state shall protect
and strengthen the family as a basic social institution.
 This shall equally protect the life of the mother and the life of the unborn from
conception.
 It is the natural and primary right and duty of parents to rear the youth for civic
efficiency, and the development of moral character shall receive the support of
the government.

 An important element of the family is MARRIAGE.

MARRIAGE
 As viewed by Catholics in the Philippines, is a sacred bond by which a man and a
woman give to each other the right to his or her person.
 The relation of the man and woman is characterized by affection and mutual
sacrifice until death does them apart.
 In other words, MARRIAGE brings together two persons in an intimate and
complete degree of self-giving.
 The Family Code defines MARRIAGE as “a special contract of permanent union
between a man and a woman entered into in accordance with law for the
establishment of conjugal and family life.”
 MARRIAGE is the foundation of the family and an inviolable social institution
whose nature, consequences, and incidents are governed by law and not subject
to stipulation, except that marriage settlements may fix the property relations
during the marriage within the limits provided by this Code.

The Family Code

 It enumerates the two (2) essential requisites to marriage:
1.) legal capacity of the contracting parties must be at least eighteen years old
2.) the requirement that consent be freely given means that marriage is voluntary
and not defective or secured through fraud, coercion, or threat.

FAMILY RELATIONS
1.) Between husband and wife
2.) Between parents and children
3.) Among brothers and sisters, whether of the full or half-blood (Family Code,
Executive Order, 2009).