Relationships and Families - key terms Flashcards
Human Sexuality
How people express themselves as human beings
Hetro Sexual
Being attractted to the opposite sex
Homosexual
Being attracted to the same sex
Pre-marital sex
sex between two unmarried people
adultery
voulantry sex between a married person and a non married person
sex outside of marriage
having sex outside a marrige where one or both of them are married to someone else
Contraception
a way of stopping pro-creation
Familly planning
Controlling how many children couples hace when they have them
Marriage
a leagal union between a man and a women (can be man and man or woman and woman)
Cohabitation
a couple living together and having sexual relationships
Divorce
Legal end of a marriage
Remarriage
When someone marries again while their former spouce is still aliveq
Annulment
A catholic chruch ruling that a marriage is invalid
Family
A group of people who are related by blood, marriage or adoption
Nuclear Familly
A couple and children regarded as a social unit