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Marriage and Family
Edexcel unit 3.3 Marriage and Family
Question | Answer |
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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 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 |