Marriage And Family Final

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Characteristics of the Passion Cluster

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Fascination
Sexual Desire
Exclusiveness

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Fatuous love lacks

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Intimacy

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Strongest Love Relationship

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Consummate Love

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highest area of agreement for happily married couples

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religious orientation

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How divorce affects attitudes toward marriage

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it makes you not value marriage as much

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Love triangle and commitment

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Commitment, Intimacy, Passion

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Americans Select partners

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physical attraction

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people with high self esteem or self acceptance

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perceive themselves to be similar to their partners

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Very dissimilar people who marry

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are often among couples who are likely to divorce

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cohabitation subsequent marriage

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increases the probability to divorce

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Physical aggression in dating couples

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highest among younger couples of lower economic status who had been drinking

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dating and physical relationships

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permissiveness refers to how physically intimate couples are before marriage

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cohabitation from 1970-2000

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increased 10 fold from 500,000 to 5.5 million couples

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cohabitators compared to non cohabitators

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Cohabitation before engagement resulted in: lower couple commitment, more negative couple interaction, lower couple satisfaction, lower confidence in the relationship,

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Best predictor of marital success

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realistic expectations

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before marriage couples should

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have premarital counseling

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defensiveness

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blaming one's spouse by denying one's won role in an issue or problem

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feedback from premarital inventories

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significantly affects the relationship

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PREPARE is able to predict what percentage of relationships

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80%-85%

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reason why marriages drift apart

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we take marriage for granted and focus on other things

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parent education programs

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new Chance
presentations and discussions about parenting

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1997 estimates to raise a child

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$178,590

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authoritarian parents

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high in cohesion, low in flexibility, moody, vulnerable to stress, and often unfriendly

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permissive parents

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flexible to chaotic, cohesive to enmeshed, parent allows child's preferences to take priority over their ideals

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democratic parenting

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clear rules when discussed with child
connect to cohesive, strutted to flexible
acknowledged child's perspective, however enforces their standards by reason and power

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hitting and suicidal thoughts

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hitting adolescence increases suicidal thoughts

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Number of young adults living with adult parents

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4 million or 1 out of every 4

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life expectancy

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77.2 years

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depression in older adults

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often alluded to old age, but sometimes linked to life occurrences

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% of wives widowed

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3 out of 4 or 75%

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life expectancy for men and women

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males 74.4
females 79.8

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killing partners

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murdered women
30% by husband, ex-husband or boyfriend

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work family strain

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young couples with children

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childbearing years

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financial and business strains

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financial strain

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families with school aged children

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spiritual well being

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praying: seeking help from pastor, minister or rabbi

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reframing

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cognitive resource and involves defining the situation as a challenge that can be conquered rather than denying its problem

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stepparents and child abuse rates

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more likely to abuse kids
40% greater chance for stepchildren

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highest divorce rate among women

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60%-80% in the teen years

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divorce and children

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a crisis in the lives of children who experience it also creates feelings of sadness, regret and anger

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Wallerstein Study

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she did a study on negative impact of divorce on children and concluded that it has a long term effect on children such as depression, underachieving, emotional problems and love relationship problems

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low conflict divorces and children

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2/3 of marriages, negative impact on the adult child's development. the offspring psychological distress, few friends, less happy marriages, greater chances for divorce

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child support payments

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48% make full payment
26% make partial payment
26$ make no payment

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increases 1970-2000 of single African American

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64%

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1970-2000 increase in female Caucasian single parent

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12% to 26%

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qualities of strong and successful families

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commitment to family
enjoyable time together
ability to manage stress and crisis
spiritual well being
positive communication
apperception and affection

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difficult time of life and families

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couple flexibility
personality issues
communication
lea sure activities
parenting

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premarital counseling

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improves relationships and reduces chances of divorce, 6-8 weeks long and start a year before marriage, most common is the PREPARE program

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rituals

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a very useful way to build on intentional family relationship through coordinated actives that have a significant for the family

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leadership equality

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the most problematic issue for couples in a relationship with over 93% of coupes agreeing