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
Step Familly
A familly that is formed on a remarriage
Extended Familly
A familly that extends over parents and children
Polygamy
the practice of people haveing more that one wife
Bigamy
The offence of having more than one wife at a time
same-sex parents
Parents are of the same sex
Stability
saftey and Security - in society
Educating Childeren in faith
Christain belief that you need to educate children in faith
Gender Equality
Where both male and female are given the same rights and oppertunitys
Gender Prejeduice
Unfairly judging someone before knowing the facts based on there gender
