3.3 - Marriage and the Family - Key terms Flashcards
What is Civil Partnership?
A legal ceremony giving a homosexual couple the same legal rights as husband and wife.
What is Cohabitation?
Living together without being married.
What is contraception?
Intentionally preventing pregnancy from occurring.
What is homosexuality?
Sexual attraction to the same sex.
What is a Nucleur family?
Mother, father, children, living as a unit.
What is a RE-constituted family?
Where two sets of children (stepbrother and stepsisters) become one family when their divorced parents marry eachother.
What is Re-marriage?
Marrying again after being divorced from a previous marriage.
What is Adultery?
A sexual act between a married person and someone other than their marriage partner.
What is Pre- marital sex?
Sex before marriage.
What is Procreation?
Making new life.
What is Promiscuity?
Having sex with a number of partners without commitment.
Whats is faithfulness?
Staying with your marriage Partner and only having sex with them.
