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52 Cards in this Set
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There are more single women than men; a ratio of __________ women in the U.S., 18yrs+, who are not currently married |
87 men to every 100 women |
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The increases in the numbers of single adults are the result of several factors: |
• Delayed marriage • Persistent divorce rate • More liberal social and sexual standards • uneven ratio of unmarried men to unmarried women • Increasingly expanded educational, lifestyle, and employment options |
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When intentionally single hetero people form r'ships within the single world, both the man and the woman tend to remain ____________ |
• Highly independent - Unmarried men and women are typically employed and, thus, tend to be economically independent of each other - The may also be more emotionally independent b/c their energy may already be heavily invested in their work or careers |
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(Types of Never-Married Singles) Voluntary and temporarily unmarried |
Ambivalent |
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(Types of Never-Married Singles) Involuntary and temporarily unmarried |
Wishful |
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(Types of Never-Married Singles) Involuntary and permanently unmarried |
Regretful |
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(Types of Never-Married Singles) Voluntary and permanently unmarried |
Resolved |
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(Myths and misconceptions about singles) All singles, _________ want to be coupled |
Especially single women |
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(Myths and Misconceptions about Singles) Singles lack a partner and, therefore: |
Lack a purpose |
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_________ embodies discriminatory stereotyping |
Singlism |
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__________ is the glorification of marriage and couplehood |
Matrimania |
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Few changes in patterns of marriage and family relationships have been as dramatic as changes in ___________ |
Cohabitation *Over the past 40 years, cohabitation has increased more than 20 fold *It has increased across all socio-economic, age, and racial groups |
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The general climate regarding sexuality is more ________ than it was a generation ago |
Liberal |
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The meanings of marriage and divorce have ________ |
Changed |
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Men and women are ________ marriage longer |
Delaying |
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Women are less ___________ on marriage |
Economically dependent |
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Cohabitation has become normalized as a _____ or _____ in one's life course |
Stage or phase |
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Cohabitation is more likely among those with ______________ |
Less education |
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Men with less than ___________ are more likely to cohabit than to marry |
Full-time, year-round employment |
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The childhood experience of Parental divorce or family instability increases the likelihood that one will enter _________________ such as cohabitation |
A nontraditional lifestyle |
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There are ___________ that often overlap with class differences regarding the likelihood of growing up in cohabitating parent households |
Racial differences |
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(Types of cohabitation) Trial Marriage |
Living together to assess compatibility |
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(Types of cohabitation) Precursor to marriage |
Partners have an expectation that they will marry |
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(Types of cohabitation) Substitute for marriage |
Partners have no intention of marrying |
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(Types of cohabitation) Coresidential dating |
Partners have a serious girlfriend/boyfriend relationship only |
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(Types of cohabitation) _____________ cohabitation used as "testing ground." |
Prelude to marriage |
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(Types of cohabitation) Stage in the marriage process |
Both partners intend to marry later |
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(Types of cohabitation) Alternative to singlehood |
Living together as a dating couple |
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(Types of cohabitation) Alternative to marriage |
Living together as if already married and no intention to marry |
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(Types of cohabitation) Indistinguishable from Marriage |
Living together as if married and indifferent to marriage itself |
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(Types of cohabitation) Accelerated cohabitants |
Decided to move in together quickly |
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(Types of cohabitation) Tentative cohabitants |
More thoughtfully entered, but usually attached to some residential challenges that encourage action |
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(Types of cohabitation) Purposeful delayers |
In-depth decision-making process that usually involves weighing options for combining finances and deciding that cohabitation is the best option |
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What cohabitation means to cohabitors |
• Delays age of marriage • Cohabiting couples lack the socioeconomic rights of married couples in the US • Banks may not look at cohabiting couples the same as married couples |
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Roughly half of those who remarry after divorce _______ before formally remarry |
Cohabit |
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___________ is now more common than premarital cohabitation |
Post-divorce cohabitation |
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Marital quality and happiness appear to be lower among ______________ cohabitors |
Post-divorce (pre-remarriage) |
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(Cohabitation and Marriage Compared) Different commitments |
• Marriages begin with spouses pledging a lifelong commitment to each other • Living together tens to be a temporary arrangement than marriage • Cohabitors are less certain of a lifetime together and tend to live more autonomous lives |
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(Cohabitation and Marriage Compared) Sex |
• Married couples experience more fulfilling sexual relationships • Heterosexual cohabitants have more frequent sexual relations |
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(Cohabitation and Marriage Compared) Finances |
•overall, cohabiting women and men have more precarious economic situations than married couples |
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(Cohabitation and Marriage Compared) Children |
• Births during cohabitation do not seem to significantly affect-- either positively or negatively-- the cohabiting relationship |
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(Cohabitation and Marriage Compared) Health and Mortality |
• Married people have somewhat better general health than cohabitants, who, in turn, have better health than the separated and divorced, widowed, and never married |
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(Cohabitation and Marriage Compared) Relationship Quality and Mental Health |
• cohabitating couples tend to have poorer relationship quality, lower levels of happiness, and more violence |
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(Cohabitation and Marriage Compared) Work |
• Married couples tend to do more household chores than cohabitating couples |
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Little research supports the idea that cohabitation leads to ___________when compared against couples who don't cohabitors before marriage |
Beneficial marital outcomes |
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The negative effects of couples cohabitating prior to marriage |
• More negative marital communication • Lower levels of satisfaction • Lower levels of male commitments to one's spouse • Gradual erosion of the value of marriage • Greater likelihood of divorce |
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Common law marriage |
• A couple who "lived as husband and wife and presented themselves as married" was considered married before the 19th century • Recognized in several states |
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Domestic partners |
• Cohabitating hetero, lez, and gay couples in committed relationships • Domestic partnership laws that grant some of the protection of marriage to cohabiting partners are increasing the legitimacy of cohabitation • Recognized by 2/3rds of Fortune 500 companies |
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The 2014 U.S. Census reported over _________ gay or lesbian couple's living together (plus some facts) |
783,100 • on avg. incomes of households headed by same-sex couples are higher than those of same-sex married couples • Greater % of partners in s-s households have earned college degrees • S-s couple households tend to be younger than hetero hhs • S-s tend to be more interracial than hetero couples • S-s are more likely to be dual earners than married couples |
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Gay and lesbians construct __________, whose boundaries are fluid and cross hhold lines |
Families of choice |
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Lesbians and gays who have children often raise them in arrangement in which they have as many as _____ partners act as parents |
4 |
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Friends can be important in a family-like role. Many of these develop into a network of ____________ which are... |
Fictive kin? - care networks that can assist in day-by-day parental tasks |
