Unit 3 - Marriage And Family Flashcards
Define: civil partnership
A legal ceremony giving a homosexual couple similar legal rights as a husband and wife.
Define: adultery
A sexual act between a married person and someone other than their marriage partner.
Define: cohabitation
Living together without being married
Define: faithfulness
Staying with your marriage partner and having sex only with them.
Define: homosexuality
Sexual attraction to the same sex
Define: nuclear family
Mother, father and children living as a unit
Define: pre-marital sex
Having sex before marriage
Define: pro creation
To bring about a new life in the form of a child.
Define: promiscuity
Having sex with a number of partners without commitment
Define: re-constituted family
Where two sets of children (stepbrothers/sisters) become one family when their divorced parents marry each other.
Define: re-marriage
Marrying again after being divorced from a previous marriage.