Unit 2- Section 3- Marriage And The Family Flashcards
Civil partnership
A legal ceremony giving a homosexual couple the same legal rights as a husband and wife
Adultery
A sexual act between a married person and someone other than their marriage partner
Cohabitation
Living together without being married
Contraception
Intentionally preventing pregnancy from occurring
Faithfulness
Staying with your marriage partner and having sex with only them
Homosexuality
Sexual attraction to someone of the same sex
Nuclear family
Mother, father and children living as a unit
Pre-marital sex
Having sex before marriage
Procreation
Making a new life
Promiscuity
Having sex with a number of partners without commitment
Re-constituted family
Where two sets of children (step brothers and stepsisters) become one family when their divorced parents marry each other
Re-marriage
Marrying again after being divorced from a previous marriage