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25 Cards in this Set
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Why are people single? |
more people are pursuing an education, waiting to get married, more women in workforce, people are ok with raising kids on their own |
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Voluntary Temporary |
Those open to marriage but place higher priority on things like education, career, social life |
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Voluntary stable |
Those who never married and do not intend to marry or are divorced, or widowed, with no intentions of remarrying, living with a partner with no intent to marry ex. priests nuns single parents |
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involuntary temporary |
would like to marry, actively seeking a partner |
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Involuntary stable |
Divorced, widowed, or never married who would like to marry but accept single as a permanent. they are not able to find a partner for several reasons |
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Who is more likely to live alone? |
Women because they live longer then men, men their age date younger women, men are more likely to get remarried |
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What race/gender is more likely to live alone? |
African american women |
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Macro level factors to be single |
war, technology, social movements, economy, gender roles |
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Demographies for being single |
sex ratio, marriage squeeze, social class, non marital child bearing |
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Individual reasons for being single |
soul mate, independence, social life aka friends, avoiding commitment, fearing divorce |
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Marriage squeeze |
imbalance in availability of men and women |
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Racial and ethnic singles |
african americans are usually the ones who are the most single, then latinos then asian americans |
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Dating cohabitation |
Gradually drift into this with out assurance of the quality of the relationship, no long term commitment |
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Premarital cohabitation |
a prelude to marriage however couples are OFTEN engaged |
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Trial marriage |
Partners in this relationship want to see what marriage might be like |
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Substitute marriage |
a long term commitment between two people who don't plan to marry |
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cohabitation effect
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lead to martial instability, its is a stepping stone to marriage |
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Inertia effect |
sliding versus deciding, drifting into marriage and sharing everything |
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Why do people live alone? |
They can afford it, values emphasize individualism, living longer and healthier, more options including singlehood |
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Singleton |
household containing only one person |
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Sex ratio |
Expressed as a whole number, is the proportion of men to women |
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Female infanticide |
The international killing of baby girls because of a preference for sons |
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Myths about being single |
Singles are selfish and self centered, singles are well off financially, singles are usually lone and miserable and want to marry, singles are promiscuous or don't get any sex, singles children are doomed to a life of poverty as well as emotional and behavioral problems, singles worry about growing old and dying alone |
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serial cohabitation |
living with different sexual partners over time |
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Power and division of labor |
majority of gay and lesbian couples report having equal power |
