I would suggest the issue the Jedi Order's disapprobation of family and romantic ties is not love, but the danger of attachment those bonds present. Deep attachment presents the risk of passion, skewed priorities, selfishness, and a whole array of uncentering emotions that could lead one to fall. This isn't to say those bonds can't be healthy or provide benefits to a Jedi, but the Order clearly takes a conservative stance and believes the risks outweigh the rewards. Its not that a Jedi can't possibly be "zen" enough for romance, marriage, or children, but I suspect the Order has seen it go wrong often enough that the just say no. In FaD, where there is no order and any force sensitives or surviving Jedi have to make their own way, they will have to make up their own minds. In the EU the Corellian Jedi were presented as being more clan centered and marriage friendly than the latter day order. In our game the survivors are Kenobi, Tano and three PCs - two jedi knights and one padawan - who are all Corellian. There is no way Kenobi can order them around or demand the old ways be followed. They are all that is left! Oddly, the Padawan is fairly orthodox about this, but both knights have been celibate but not chaste. One (the female one) might as well be "Bond. Master Bond."

The ban is definitely about attachment and passion. To paraphrase Jolee Bindo : Passion can destroy us, but love, love redeems us. See also : Revan saving Bastilla thanks to their love.

7 hours ago, Silim said:

The ban is definitely about attachment and passion. To paraphrase Jolee Bindo : Passion can destroy us, but love, love redeems us. See also : Revan saving Bastilla thanks to their love.

Luke saving Vader, as the obvious but defining example.

1 hour ago, Stan Fresh said:

Luke saving Vader, as the obvious but defining example.

I would note, no other Jedi would have even tried. Kenobi gave up on Vader long ago.

Only the deep bonds of father and son led Luke to make the effort.

And only those same bonds led Vader to redemption through self-sacrifice in the end.

I think the Jedi ban is rooted in "best practices" rather than moral certainties.

Ergo, the Order is erring on the side of caution when "cutting the odds."