Marriage and the Family Flashcards
Adultery
A sexual act between a married person and someone other than their marriage partner
Civil Partnership
A legal ceremony giving a homosexual couple the same legal rights as a husband and wife
Cohabitation
Living together without being married
Contraception
Intentionally preventing pregnancy from occuring
Divorce
The legal ending of a marriage
Faithfulness
Staying with your marriage partner and having sex only with them
Homosexuality
Sexual attraction to people of the same sex
Nuclear family
Mother, father and chilling living as a family unit
Pre-marital sex
Sex before marriage
Procreation
Making a new life
Promiscuity
Have sex with a number of people without commitment
Re-constituted family
Where two sets of children (stepbrothers and stepsisters) become one family when their divorce parents marry each other
Re-marriage
Marrying again after being divorced from a previous marriage, or after the death of a marriage partner
