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Psycho-social Factors Influencing Marital Instability
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1.7 CONCEPTUAL CLARIFICATIONS
Marriage: A
socially and religious approved union between a male and a female by
which they are legally and morally entitled to sexual relationship, bear
and rear children thereby, establishing a family of their own; It is
the union of a man and a woman who makes a permanent and exclusive
commitment to each other of the type that is naturally fulfilled by
bearing and rearing children together, and renewed by acts that
constitute the behavioural path process of production.
Instability:
The quality or condition of being unstable. It can also be seen as an
unusually and unnaturally large fluctuation that may lead to serious
damage or failure; if allowed to continue beyond a certain limit.
Marital
instability: It is an unusual or unnatural large fluctuation that
occurs in a marriage (between a man and a woman) that may therefore lead
to serious damage or system failure in the family, if allowed to
continue beyond a certain limit.
Divorce: Termination or dissolution
of a legal marriage. According to Dr. Dawn Taylor, it is what happens
when people decide not to be married to each other anymore. A divorce
legally ends a marriage and people are free to marry other people if
they want to.
Psychosocial: The word psychosocial is gotten from
Social Psychology; it is a field that seeks to understand the nature and
causes of individual's behavior and thought in social situations.
Social psychology is an attempt to understand and explain how the
thought, feeling and behaviour of individuals is influenced by the
actual, imagined or implied presence of others.
Attachment Pattern:
is the bond that develops between a baby and its primary caregiver. It
is characterized by the interaction patterns which develop in order to
fulfill the infants’ needs and emotional development. This pattern
therefore shapes future relationships.
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