Marriage and the Family Flashcards
Adultery
An act of sexual intercourse between a married person and someone other than their married partner
Cohabitation
Living together without being married
Faithfullness
Staying with your married partner and only having sex with them
Pre-Marital Sex
Sex before marriage
Promiscuity
Sex with number of partners without commitment
Homosexuality
Sexual attraction to the same gender
Annulment
Deceleration by the Church that a marriage never lawfully existed
Re-Marriage
Marrying again after being divorced from previous marriage
Extended Family
Children, Parents and grandparents/aunts/uncles living as as unit in close proximity
Nuclear family
Mother, Father and children living as a unit
Re-Constituted Family
Two Sets of children (Step) become one family when their divorced parents marry
Celibate
One without Sex
Civil Partnership
Legal Ceremony which gives homosexuals the same legal rights as a husband and wife
Contraception
Intentionally preventing a pregnancy
Procreation
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