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               70  International Multi. J. of PURE LIFE. 10 (33): 63-100, Winter. 2023
                  As     for    the    second         only  most  of  the  rules
               category  of  rights  which            relating  to  the  family  are

               are non-mandatory, there is            without  effective  sanctions
               no punishment assigned for             but  they  also  originate  in
               violating  them.  It  goes             religious and social morality

               without  saying  that  each            and influence the law.
               non-mandatory        right    is          In all societies, the family
               backed      up     by    moral         is  the  expression  of  public

               obligation      because      the       morality,  and  what  must
               efficiency  of  a  family              characterize  a  family  are
               cannot  be  guaranteed  only           love, compassion, good intention

               on  the  basis  of  law;               and  mutual  trust.    No  force
               otherwise  this  institution           other morality and faith can
               will  turn  into  a  weak,             rule  over  these  emotions.

               lifeless, pathetic, unsustainable      The  fact  that  man  is  duty-
               and unstable institution.              bound  to  maintain  his
                  The family is not only a            family  and  educate  his
               legal institution characterized        children  and  the  wife  is

               by  a  coherent  system  of            obliged to behave well with
               laws  designed  to  govern             her children and husband as
               and constrain all aspects of           well as to submit herself to

               its  operation  but  it  is  also      him  derives  from  moral
               an  institution  requiring  a          rules  which  the  law  has
               combination  of  legal  and            borrowed.

               moral  codes.  Morality  is               In  cases  where  the  law
               predominant         in      this       gives general instructions and
               combination  because  not              prescribes  universal  and
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