Marriage and Family (Vocabulary) Flashcards
Promiscuity
Having sex with a number if partners without commitment
Cohabitation
Living together without being married
Adultery
A sexual act between a married person and someone other than their marriage partner
Pre marital sex
Sex before marriage
Civil partnership
A legal ceremony giving a homosexual couple the same legal rights as a husband and wife
Homosexuality
Sexual attraction to the same sex
Faithfulness
Staying with your partner of marriage and only having sex with them
Contraception
Intentionally preventing a pregnancy from occurring
Re constituted family
Where two sets of children (steps) become one family and their divorced parents marry each other
Re marriage
Marrying again after being divorced from a previous marriage
Nuclear family
Mother father and children living as a unit
Procreation
Making a new life
