Marriage and Family Life - Key Words

Question 1

Adultery

Answer 1

A sexual act between a married person and someone other than their marriage partner

Question 2

Civil Partnership

Answer 2

A legal ceremony giving a homosexual couple the same legal rights as a husband and wife

Question 3

Cohabitation

Answer 3

Living together without being married

Question 4

Contraception

Answer 4

Intentionally preventing pregnancy from occurring

Question 5

Faithfullness

Answer 5

Staying with your marriage partners and having sex with only them

Question 6

Homosexuality

Answer 6

Sexual attraction to the same sex

Question 7

Nuclear Family

Answer 7

Mother, father and children living as a unit

Question 8

Pre-marital sex

Answer 8

Sex before marriage

Question 9

Procreation

Answer 9

Making a new life

Question 10

Promiscuity

Answer 10

Having sex with a number of partners without commitment

Question 11

Re-constituted family

Answer 11

Where two sets of children (stepbrothers and stepsisters) become one family when their divorced parents marry each other

Question 12

Re-marriage

Answer 12

Marrying again after being divorced from a previous marriage