Marriage And The Family Flashcards
Procreation
Making a new life
Cohabition
Living together before they are married
Adultery
An act of sexual intercourse between a married person and someone else other than their married partner
Faithfulness
Staying with your marriage partner and having sex only with them
Pre-marital sex
Sex before marriage
Promiscuity
Having sex with a number of people without commitment
Homosexuality
Sexual attraction to the people of the same gender
Annulment
A declaration by the church that a marriage never lawfully existed
Re-marriage
Marrying again after being divorce from previous marriage
Re-constituted family
Where two sets of children (step brothers and sisters) becoming one family when their divorced parents marrying each other
Celibate life
One without sex
Civil partnership
A legal ceremony giving homosexual couple the same legal rights as husband and wife
