Marriage And the Family Flashcards
What is a civil partnership
A legal ceremony giving a homosexual couple the same legal rights as husband and wife
What is cohabition
Living together without being married
What is contraception
Intentionally preventing conception form occurring
What is faithfulness
Staying with your marriage partner and only having sex with them
What is homosexuality
Sexual attraction between the same sex
What is a nuclear family
Mother, father and children living as a unit
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
What is a re-constituted family
Where two sets of children become one family when their divorced parents marry each other
What is re-marriage
Marrying again after being divorced from a previous marriage
What is adultery
An act of sexual intercourse between a married person and someone other than their marriage partner
