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19 Cards in this Set
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Which marriage has the best chance to succeed?
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Traditional?
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At what point in marriage do most couples have many of the necessary relationship negotiations in place?
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Most couples have many of these negotiations in place by years 7-10.
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What percentage rate of divorce is carelessly thrown around in the media?
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It is a myth that 1 in 2 marriages eventually ends in divorce.
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Do many countries give same-sex marriage rights to their citizens?
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Netherlands granted same-sex marriage rights to its citizens, about six other Western nations have granted same-sex marriage rights. Many countries refuse to give same-sex marriage rights to their citizens.
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According to Judith Vallerstein, for how long and in what ways does divorce impact children?
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Her conclusions match those of other researchers -- children whose parents divorce are impacted throughout their lives by it in a variety of ways. The same could be said of children whose parents remained married and raised them in a caustic home environment.
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What is the impact of cohabitation on marriage duration?
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Younger people today wait to marry until their late twenties (Delayed Marriage), while other family forms such as single parenting, cohabiting, and three-generational families have increased in the U.S.
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How does the length of a marriage impact the odds of divorce?
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The longer couples are married, the less likely they are to get divorced.
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What approaches best improve your marital quality, and are far more influential than most other factors leading to divorce?
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A proactive and assertive approach to your marital quality is far more influential than most other factors leading to divorce.
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What is the entity with power to legalize marriage?
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To legally marry in the United States today, one simply goes to the local county or state office and applies for a state marriage license. The state also claims authority in granting divorce rights to couples.
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What age group has the highest risk of divorce?
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Baby boomer generation.
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What are the concepts of Levinger’s Model?
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1-10 years of marriage are the highest concentration of divorces.
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What is the title given to the group born between 1946 and 1964?
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Baby Boomers.
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Longevity is often associated with what?
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Arrival of children, accumulation of wealth, stablishment of acceptable social status (being married is still highly regarded as a status), and the buffering of many of life's daily stressors
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Define: Cohort
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A Cohort is a group of people who have some demographic characteristic, typically associated with their birth year or group of birth years. The Baby Boom is a cohort of those born between 1946 and 1964 and represents a never-before and never-after repeated high period of birth rates that yielded about 70 million living Baby Boomers today (i.e., people born 1946-1964).
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Define: Equity
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Equity is a sense that the interactions are fair to us and fair to others involved by the consequences of our choices.
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Define: Divorce
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Divorce is the legal dissolution of a previously granted marriage.
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Define: Marital Entropy
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Marital Entropy as the principle based on the belief that if a marriage does not receive preventative maintenance and upgrades it will move towards decay and break down.
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Define: Social Exchange
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Marital Entropy as the principle based on the belief that if a marriage does not receive preventative maintenance and upgrades it will move towards decay and break down.
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Define: Longevity
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Living longer.
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