Marriage and Family - Key Words

Question 1

Adultery

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Civil Patnership

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Cohabition

Answer 3

Living together without being married.

Question 4

Contraception

Answer 4

Intentionally preventing pregnancy from occurring.

Question 5

Faithfullness

Answer 5

Staying with your marriage partner and having sex only with them.

Question 6

Homosexuality

Answer 6

Sexual attraction to the same sex.

Question 7

Nuclear Family

Answer 7

Mother, Father and Children living together as a unit.

Question 8

Pre-Marital Sex

Answer 8

Sex before marriage.

Question 9

Procreation

Answer 9

Making a new life.

Question 10

Promiscuity

Answer 10

Having sex with a number of partners without commitment.

Question 11

Re- Constituted Family

Answer 11

Where two sets of children (step brother and sisters) become one family when their divorced parents marry again.

Question 12

Re-Marriage

Answer 12

Marrying again after being divorced from a previous marriage.