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Edexcel RS Unit 3.3
Marriage and the Family
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 occurring. |
| Homosexuality | Sexual attraction to the same sex. |
| Nuclear family | Mother, father and children living as a unit. |
| Re-constituted family | Where two sets of children (stepbrothers and stepsisters) become one family when their divorced parents marry each other. |
| Re-marriage | Marrying again after being divorced from a previous marriage. |
| Adultery | A sexual act between a married person and someone other than their marriage partner. |
| Pre-marital sex | Sex before marriage. |
| Procreation | Making a new life. |
| Promiscuity | Having sex with a number of partners without commitment. |
| Faithfulness | Staying with your marriage partner and having sex only with them. |