Mexican Wedding Statement in Civil Ceremonies
1. Marriage is the only moral foundation of the family, to preserve the species and to supplement the imperfections of the individual who is unable alone to reach human perfection.
2. The human race does not exist in the single person but only in the conjugal pairing.
3. The married partners should be sacred to one another, even more than one tends to be to himself.
4. The man who is the principal source of courage and strength, should and will give the woman protection, nourishment and direction. He should treat her always as the more delicate and sensitive partner, and generously offer her his strength, especially in her time of need.
5. The woman, whose principal talents are self-sacrifice, beauty, compassion, keen insight and tenderness should, and will, give her husband obedience, pleasure, assistance, consolation and advice. She should treat him always with a delicacy and with the respect due to the one who supports and defends her.
6. Each deserves respect, deference, fidelity, confidence and tenderness, and both should make every effort to reach out to one another and not contradict their unity.
7. Both should attempt to control their faults.
8. Never should they trade insults because the injury to the relationship would show a lack of keen insight and good judgement that could damage the strength of their union.
9. Both should be willing to correct their faults, and to strive for the highest standards of parenthood to set a good example for their children.
10. The principles which inspire these tender and loving bonds of affection will bear the fruits of good or bad fortunes and the happiness or misfortune of the children will become the reward and good fortune of the parents or their punishment and misery.
11. Society blesses, considers well, and praises parents who raise their children to become good citizens. The same society censures and rightly condemns those who fail to properly love or give good example.
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