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Single Living
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-Increased rates, may reflect change in societal attitudes
-serial monogamy, have sex less often and are less satisfied than married |
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Cohabitation
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-Living together and having sexual relationship without being married, short term arrangement, 2 years at 33%, 5 years or more 10%.
-Higher rate of unhappiness, women with less educated partners, women marry men with better education than them -Less likely to be monogamous -greater risk at divorce |
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Domestic Partnership
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An unmarried couple living in the same household in a committed relationship
-heterosexual or homosexual, not legally married. |
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Collectivist and Individualist Cultures
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-India, Pakistan, Thailand, Philippines emphasize group or collective goals, over individual aspirations. Union of two families
-In contrast, Canada, Europe, Australia, stress individual desires and goals over family interests. |
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Predicting Marital Satisfaction
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Gottman, the four horsemen: Criticism, Contempt, Defensiveness and Stonewalling
-A ratio of at least five positive interactions to each negative -Facial expressions of disgust, fear or misery -High levels of heart rate |
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Divorce
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50% end up divorced, most remarry, half of all marriages involve at least one person who has been divorced one or more times
Increased economic independence of women, increases the importance of relationship satisfaction over financial dependences in women’s decision to divorce Age at marriage: marriage in teen years are twice more likely to divorce compared to those who marry in their 20’s. After 30 lower rates of divorce The lower the education level the higher the divorce rate, high divorced rate with women who have graduate degrees |
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serial monogamy
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A single person who has a succession of sexually exclusive relationships.
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Miscegenation refers to:
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sex between members of different races
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The double standard of aging is reflected in the pairing of:
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powerful, older men and young, beautiful women
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