Glossary - Section 2.3 - Marriage And Family

Question 0

Civil partnership

Answer 0

A legal ceremony giving a homosexual couple the same legal rights as a husband and wife

Question 1

Adultery

Answer 1

A sexual act between a married person and someone other than their marriage partner

Question 2

Cohabitation

Answer 2

Living together without being married

Question 3

Contraception

Answer 3

Intentionally preventing pregnancy from occurring

Question 4

Faithfulness

Answer 4

Staying with your marriage partner and having sex with only them

Question 5

Homosexuality

Answer 5

Sexual attraction to the same sex

Question 6

Nuclear family

Answer 6

Mother, father and children living as a unit

Question 7

Pre-marital sex

Answer 7

Sex before marriage

Question 8

Procreation

Answer 8

Making a new life

Question 9

Promiscuity

Answer 9

Having sex with a number of partners without commitment

Question 10

Re-constituted family

Answer 10

Where two sets of children (stepbrothers and stepsisters) become one family when their divorced parents marry each other

Question 11

Re-marriage

Answer 11

Marrying again after being divorced from a previous marriage