SHHS Unit 3 Marriage and Family Life Key Words

Question 1

Civil Partnership

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Cohabitation

Answer 2

Living together without being married.

Question 3

Homosexuality

Answer 3

Sexual attraction to the same sex.

Question 4

Nuclear family

Answer 4

Mother, father and children living as a unit.

Question 5

Re-constituted family

Answer 5

Where two sets of children (stepbrothers and stepsisters) become one family when their divorced parents marry each other.

Question 6

Re-marriage

Answer 6

Marrying again after being divorced from a previous marriage.

Question 7

Promiscuity

Answer 7

Having sex with a number of partners without commitment.

Question 8

Pre-marital sex

Answer 8

Sex before marriage.

Question 9

Adultery

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Faithfulness

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Procreation

Answer 11

Making a new life.

Question 12

Contraception

Answer 12

Intentionally preventing pregnancy from occurring.