Section 3- Marriage And The Family Flashcards
Adultery
The sexual act between a married person and someone other than their marriage partner.
Civil partnership
A legal ceremony giving a homosexual couple the same legal rights as a husband and wife.
Cohabitation
Living together without being married.
Contraception
Intentionally preventing pregnancy from occurring.
Faithfulness
Straying with your marriage partner and having sex only with them.
Homosexuality
A sexual attraction to the same sex.
Nuclear family
A mother, father and children living as a unit.
Pre-marital sex
Sex before marriage.
Procreation
Making of a new life.
Promiscuity
Having sex with a number of partners without commitment.
Re-constituted family
Where two sets of children (stepbrothers and stepsisters) become one family when their divorced parents marry each other.
Re-marriage
Marrying again after being divorced from a previous marriage.