Topic 3 - Marriage And The Family Flashcards
What is Civil Partnership?
A legal ceremony giving a homosexual couple with the same legal rights as a husband and wife.
What is adultery?
A sexual act between a married person and someone other than their marriage partner.
What is Cohabitation?
Living together without being married.
What is contraception?
Intentionally preventing pregnancy from occurring.
What is faithfulness?
Staying with your marriage partner and having sex only with them.
What is homosexuality?
sexual attraction to the same sex.
What is nuclear family?
Mother, father and children living as a unit.
What is pre marital sex?
Sex before marriage.
What is procreation?
Making a new life.
What is promiscuity?
Having sex with a number of partners without commitment.
What is re constituted family?
Where two sets of children become one family when their divorced parents marry each other.
What is re marriage?
Marrying again after being divided from a previous marriage.