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