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Section 3 marriage
Marriage and family life keywords
Term | Definition |
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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 | Intentionally preventing pregnancy from occuring |
Faithfullness | 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 |
Promiscuity | Having sex with a number of people without commitment |
Re-constituted family | Where two sets of children become one family when their divorced parents remarry |
Re marriage | Marrying after being divorced from a previous marriage |