Religious Upbringing. The Parties shall consult with each other before committing the Children to a course of religious instruction, training, or worship.
Religious Upbringing. To the extent a marital settlement agreement purports to prescribe the religious upbringing of the parties' minor children, it is probably unenforceable. [Marriage of Xxxxx (1996) 42 Cal.App.4th 106, 114-115, 118, 49 Cal.Rptr.2d 339, 344-345, 347] Damages: A marital settlement agreement is unenforceable as violating the public policy underlying California's no-fault dissolution laws to the extent it requires one spouse to pay damages to the other. [See Marriage of Xxxxxx & Xxxxxx (2004) 118 Cal.App.4th 1167, 1171-1172, 13 Cal.Rptr.3d 522, 524-525; Xxxxxxxx x. Xxxxxxxx (2002) 97 Cal.App.4th 470, 474, 118 Cal.Rptr.2d 494, 496-497] Law Prohibiting Promotion Of Dissolution Or Altering Legal Relations Don't Apply: Once the marriage has truly broken down and is beyond redemption from a social standpoint, the limitations against contracts "promoting dissolution" and/or "altering legal relations" do not apply. Indeed, marital settlement agreements dividing property and otherwise settling the parties' rights and obligations for dissolution purposes are regarded favorably under California law since they advance the strong public policy favoring settlement over litigation. Spousal Support Waivers: There is no prohibition against a waiver of postdissolution spousal support. If the spouses separate by agreement, neither owes the other a duty of support unless they otherwise agree (Ca Fam § 4302); and any right to support after dissolution exists, if at all, only under the terms of the judgment. Thus, a voluntary, knowing and intelligent waiver of support in a marital settlement agreement will be enforced according to its terms.
Religious Upbringing. 1. What is the role of religious upbringing in current sexual decision-making?
Religious Upbringing. Across the interviews, young women expressed their experiences in religion and sexual education growing up and in their current lives. Generally, religious upbringing impacted young women’s sexual decision-making. Findings indicate that religious upbringing shapes the individual’s values and morality despite current religion or spirituality. Within religious upbringing, institutional factors included church teachings, religious affiliation, and religious rituals growing up. Although institutional factors in religious upbringing did not have a direct impact on sexual decision-making, they were integrated into the individual’s values, which therefore have an impact on overall decision-making. This often included religious teachings such as being forgiving, being kind to others, and being a good Christian among other things. For some, religion did not impact sexual decision-making at all and they treated sex and religion as disconnected factors in sexual decision-making. However, these young women consciously disconnected religion and sex to avoid shame and guilt due to religious upbringing. Religious upbringing and familial upbringing are presented together on the interpersonal level because participants’ responses revealed that these factors are closely integrated. All young women described their familial and religious upbringing simultaneously. Interestingly, a commonality that emerged among participants was the dominant role of the mother and/or grandmother in their religious upbringing. Most said that, during youth, they attended church with a mother and grandmother or participated in church activities because a mother or grandmother wanted them to do so. In African American culture, strong, dominant women portraying the ‘mother-role’ play a significant role in the lives of their daughters and granddaughters, taking on a positive matriarchal role in the religious upbringing of their daughters. African American matriarchs are strong, dominant women who teach respect and set and enforce rules in the home. This is consistent with a study released over forty years ago, which suggested that matriarchs play a strong influential role in African American families and, more narrowly, in African American children’s upbringing (Xxxxx & Xxxx, 1969). Therefore, it is not surprising that matriarchal roles have a major impact on religious upbringing among African American young women. The individual-level factors in religious upbringing that emerged include religious a...
