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Edexcel RS Unit 3.3
Marriage and the Family
Question | Answer |
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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. |