Relationships And Families Flashcards
Adultery
Voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and someone who is not their spouse
Sex before marriage
Sex between two single unmarried people
Sex outside marriage
Sex between two people where one or both are married to someone else
Marriage
A legal union between two people as partners in a relationship
Civil partnership
Legal union of same-sex couples
Cohabitation
A couple loving together and having a sexual relationship and without being married to one another
Annulment
A Catholic Church ruling that a marriage was never valid
Nuclear family
A couple and their children regarded as a basic social unit
Step family
A family that is formed on the remarriage of a divorced or widowed person and that includes a child or children
Extended family
A family that extends beyond just parents and their children by including grandparents and other relatives
Polygamy
The practice and custom of having more than one wife at the same time
Bigamy
The offence of marrying someone while already married to another person
