RELIGION AND LIFE 

3 - MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY

Key words - 
Adultery - a sexual act between a married person and someone other than their marriage partner 
Promiscuity - sex with a number of partners without commitment 
Homosexuality - sexual attraction to the same sex 
Pre-marital sex - sex before marriage 
Contraception - intentionally preventing pregnancy from occurring 
Procreation - making a new life 
Faithfulness - staying with your marriage partner and having sex only with them 
Civil partnership - legal ceremony giving a homosexual couple the same legal rights and a heterosexual married couple 
Nuclear family - mother, father and children living as a unit 
Re-constituted family - where 2 sets of children (step-brothers/sisters) become one family when their divorced parents marry eachother 
Re-marriage - marrying again after being divorced from a previous marriage 
Cohabitation - living together without being married