Marriage In The Family Flashcards
Cohabitation
Living together without being married
Contraception
Intentionally preventing pregnancy from occurring
Civil partnership
A legal ceremony giving a homosexual couple the same legal rights as a husband and wife
Extended family
Grandparents/aunts/uncles living as a unit with Mother, Father and the children ; or living very close and having a lot of contact with each other
Faithfulness
Staying with your marriage partner and only having sex with them
Homosexuality
Sexual attraction to the same sex
Nuclear family
Mother, Father and children living as a unit
Pre-marital sex
Sex before marriage
Procreation
Making a new life
Promiscuity
Having sex with a number partners without commitment
Re-constituted family
Where two sets of children become one family when their divorced parents marry each other
Re-marriage
Marrying again after being divorced from a previous marriage
Adultery
A married person having sex with someone else other than their partner