THE CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF FAMILY BREAKDOWN ON CHRISTIAN MARRIAGES IN BUTEMBA C.O.U. EAST RUWENZORI DIOCESE.
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2025-08-04
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UGANDA CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
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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.
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