Unit 3 - Marrige and family Flashcards
Define adultery
A sexual act between a married person and someone other than their marriage partner.
Define civil partnership
A legal ceremony giving a homosexual couple the same legal rights as a husband and wife.
Define cohabitation
Living together without being married.
Define contraception
Intentionally preventing conception from occurring. There are various forms of artificial contraception.
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 procreation
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.
