Section C: Relationships, Families And Children Flashcards
Adultery
A married person having sexual relations with someone other than their marriage partner
Celibacy
Remaining unmarried and having no sexual relationships
Civil partnership (or civil union/ registered or life partnership)
A legal relationship between two people of the same sex, which gives the partners equal treatment with married couples in a wide range of areas
Cohabitation
Living together without being married
Contraception
A means of preventing a women from becoming pregnant
Divorce
The legal ending of a marriage
Extended family
A number of different family relations, such as parents, children, grandparents, and other relations, living together as a unit or close to each other
Faithfulness (within marriage, a civil partnership or long-term relationship)
Staying only with the partner and having sexual relations only with that partner
Genetic engineering
Changing the basic structure of human life by medical means
Heterosexuality
Being attracted to people of the opposite gender to yourself
Homosexuality
Being attracted to people of the same gender as yourself
Marriage
A man and a women who have been legally joined together
Nuclear family
Mother, father and children living as a unit
Pre- marital sex
Having sexual relations before marriage
Promiscuity
Having sexual relations with a number of partners without any commitment
