Unit 1, Section 3: Marriage And The Family Flashcards
Adultery
A 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
The deliberate intention of preventing pregnancy from occurring
Faithfulness
Staying with your marriage partner and having sex only with them
Homosexuality
Sexual attraction to the same sex
Nuclear family
Mother, father and children living as a unit
Pre-marital sex
Sex before marriage
Procreation
Making a new life
Re-constituted family
Where two sets of children (step children) become one family when their divorced parents marry eachother
Re-marriage
Marrying again after being divorced from a previous marriage
Same-sex family
2 same-sex parents and children
Single-parent family
One parent and children
Extended family
Parents, children, grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins