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    THE CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF FAMILY BREAKDOWN ON CHRISTIAN MARRIAGES IN BUTEMBA C.O.U. EAST RUWENZORI DIOCESE.
    (UGANDA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY, 2025-08-04) TUMWEBAZE WILSON
    The study analyzes the causes and effects of family disintegration on Christian marriages in Butemba Church of Uganda (C.O.U.) within the East Ruwenzori Diocese. The research seeks to explain the rising problem of marital instability among Christian families despite the Church's emphasis on biblical principles of love, commitment, and forgiveness. Based on research into real experience and member insight from clergy, churches, and marriage counselors, the study identifies the determinants of the issue to be lack of communication, adultery, financial difficulties, loss of spirituality, and outside cultural pressures. The study employed a mixed-methods approach, utilizing interviews, questionnaires, and focus group discussions to gather data from a sample population of Christian couples, church leaders, and family ministry teams. From the analysis of the findings, the study verifies that family breakdown affects the targeted couple but also has much broader implications on children, the church family, and society at large. Emotional harm, domestic violence, poor parenting, reduced church attendance, and social discredit were some of the key effects established. Finally, the research underscores the need for the Church to further its support mechanisms for Christian weddings in the form of ongoing guidance, instruction, mentoring, and prayer. Some of the recommendations involve the incorporation of pre-marriage and wedding counseling programs, increased involvement of church elders as role models of young couples, and promotion of family fellowship programs. The study therefore calls for cooperation between the Church, families, and community leaders to guard the holiness and stability of Christian marriages in the Diocese.