S3 Marriage and the Family: Key Words

Question 1

Homosexuality

Answer 1

Sexual attraction to the same sex.

Question 2

Adultery

Answer 2

A sexual act between a married person and someone other than their marriage partner.

Question 3

Cohabitation

Answer 3

Living together without being married.

Question 4

Faithfulness

Answer 4

Staying with your marriage partner and having sex with only them.

Question 5

Pre-marital sex

Answer 5

Sex before marriage.

Question 6

Promiscuity

Answer 6

Having sex with a number of partners without commitment.

Question 7

Procreation

Answer 7

Making a new life.

Question 8

Re-marriage

Answer 8

Marrying again after being divorced from a previous marriage.

Question 9

Civil partnership

Answer 9

A legal ceremony giving a homosexual couple the same legal rights as a husband and wife.

Question 10

Nuclear family

Answer 10

Mother, father and children living as a unit.

Question 11

Re-constituted family

Answer 11

Where two sets of children (step brothers and step sisters) become one family when their divorced parents marry each other.

Question 12

Contraception

Answer 12

Intentionally preventing a pregnancy from occurring.