strategy
Educating for marriage and family life
Synonyms:
Schooling in family lifePreparing for marriage
Offering adequate family life education
Increasing family education
Empowering families through life education
Educating parents
Training families
Preparing children for adult life
Description:
Preparing people for marriage informally, as by observation of parents and relatives or formally through schools or religious or government sponsored programmes. This education includes: theory of human sexuality; the culturally accepted means of spacing children; children's education to be done by the family; household finance; domestic skills including health, sanitation, cooking, cleaning and minor repairs; sex roles, family rites and rituals and the acceptable behaviour by members towards each other and non-family members. Such education prepares people for the individual functions of married life: to provide psychological and physical security and sexual satisfaction; and for the social functions: procreation and child socialization, regulation of sexual behaviour, contributions to social and economic life of society and contributions to social order. Context:
The forms of the household include the corporate family, the extended family, the conjugal family, the nuclear family and the experimental family. The forms of marriage have included monogamy, polygyny, when husbands are allowed more than one wife, polyandry, the rarer form where wives are allowed more than one husband, and the rare and unstable group cohabitation or 'marriage' where there is more than one husband and wife. Implementation:
A consortium of communities, parishes, doctors, lawyers and families in the [Oberdrautal] in rural Austria established an [Academy for Family Education]. They reasoned that formal education systems are one-sidely preparing for remunerated work and neglect to prepare for those areas of life that are the foundations of human existence: partnership, family, happiness, social competence [etc] -- the non-material values. Claim:
1. Traditional forms of marriage education are failing to prepare people for the roles and functions of marriage and are resulting in psychological and social problems. New insights are called for in preparing people for the married state.2. Adults are obsolete children. (Dr Seuss).
Counter Claim:
(a) Society is already over organized and has no helpful way of dealing with family issues. (b) The family is the only effective form in which family development can be achieved. Broader:
EducatingSupporting familiesEmpowering family unitsEmpowering family unitsForging family life-styleAdvancing continuing education Narrower:
Exalting family lifeTeaching about sexualityIncreasing effectiveness of parentingBuilding family decision making structuresTesting couple compatibility before marriage Facilitates:
BaptizingAssuring family health careProviding basic family needsReducing individual fertilityCampaigning to raise legal age of marriageReducing threat to the survival of marriage Facilitated by:
Supplying family planning services Organizations:
International Federation for Family Life Promotion International Federation for Parent Education International Federation for Family Health International Federation of Marriage Preparation Centres International Institute 'Mater Ecclesiae Domesticae' Recherches pour l'éducation affective des jeunes en Afrique Averroès European Training Centre for Early Child Development and the Family NGO Committee on Family Life Education Subjects:
Life → Life Society → Infants
Society → Adults
Society → Family
Society → Marriage
Society → Maternity, paternity
Education → Education
Education → Training
Type Classification:
E: Emanations of other strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
