RE - Marriage And Family Life Flashcards
Civil Partnership
A legal ceremony giving a homosexual couple similar legal rights as a husband and wife.
Cohabitation
Living together without being married.
Contraception
Artificial methods used to stop pregnancy.
Faithfulness
Staying with your marriage partner and having sex with only them.
Homosexuality
Sexual attraction to the same sex.
Nuclear Family
Mother, Father and children living as one unit.
Pre-Marital Sex
Having sex before marriage.
Procreation
To bring about a new life in the form of a child.
Promiscuity
Having sex with a number of partners without commitment.
Re-Constituted Family
Where two sets of children (stepbrothers/sisters) become one family when their divorced parents marry each other.
Re-Marriage
Marrying again after being divorced from a previous marriage.
Adultery
A sexual act between a married person and someone other than their marriage partner.
Civil Partnership
A legal ceremony giving a homosexual couple similar legal rights as a husband and wife.
Cohabitation
Living together without being married.
Contraception
Artificial methods used to stop pregnancy.
