Marriage: Conditions, Importance, Challenges, Problems & Solutions

The followings are some of the conditions for marriage

Importance of Marriage in the Society

Reduces immoral practices in the Society: – Marriage reduces in discriminable sexual relationship. It provides the couples the opportunity to satisfy themselves sexually.
It determines family members: – Through marriage family is establishes. The man, his wife and their children makes a family.
It gives couples respects and Recognition: A married man or woman is seen as a responsible person. Greater respect are given by the society to those who are married.
Helps in preserving Social Values Beliefs and Culture: – Marriage produces family provides medium through which societal values are passed to the next generation through the process of socialization.

Unfaithfulness: – Couples must be faithful to their marital vows. Extra-marital affair is a form of unfaithfulness that has scattered many homes.
Infertility: – This causes childless in the family. Except there is strong marital understanding between the couples. This could destroy a happy home.
Absence of male children: – some families have broken not because of bareness but absence of a male child. This happens in families who recognize and value male children more than female.
Communication Gap: This brings disaffection in home.
Intruders Activities: – where couples allow parents, in laws and friends to interfere in their family issues, they are likely to run into trouble.
Lack of respect and love for each other:- When couples fail to respect themselves this will create a lot of problems in the home.

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