Canonical Implication of Contraceptives among Discordant Couples on a Canonical Marriage
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2009
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Tangaza College
Abstract
This essay is situated in an African context particularly in Kibera Slums of
Nairobi. Life in the slum is stricken with socio-economic hardships with ever growing
poverty, which may accelerate some moral and legal problems like prostitution and drug
abuse. In my visit to Kibera slum in the year 2009, I came across one Christian family
who wedded in the Church in 2005 (names are reserved). The spouses now have two
children whom they are bringing up with tremendous hardships because none of the
spouse has a reliable source of income. This couple had promised to be faithful to each
other from the very beginning of their marriage. Unfortunately, the husband was found to
be HIV positive three years later. He was not ready to disclose to me how he was infected
but from his way of living it could suggest some sort of marital unfaithfulness. I was able
to arrive at this conclusion because there was a moment when the wife had to go home
during her early days of maternity of their second child. She had to go home because the
husband could not help her as he was busy engaged in his daily work in a certain factory
in Nairobi. During this time, the husband associated himself with some women who
happen to be his neighbors. This was known because when the wife returned, she learned
of it and forced the husband to go for the HIV test who was then found to be HIV
positive.
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Marriage, Hiv/Aids, Discordant Couples