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Marriage and Family
Edexcel unit 3.3 Marriage and Family
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 occurring |
| faithfulness | 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 partners without commitment |
| 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 |