Andrew Cherlin (2004) has described the                                      of marriage as the shift from institutional, companionate, to individualized marriage.

The level of domestic violence, or intimate partner violence (IPV), among cohabiting couples is                                  .

Adults with a(n)                                attachment style exhibit possible negative behaviors such as unwarranted jealousy or attempts to control one’s partner due to fear of abandonment.

The                                 is  the number of men to women in a given society or subgroup, and is expressed in the number of males for every 100 females.

British demographer Kathleen Kiernan (2002) has described a society-wide, four-stage process through which cohabitation becomes a socially acceptable living arrangement that is equal in status to marriage. Please identify the correct order of these four stages.

In the Stepfamily Development Model created by Patricia Papernow, the                         stage is when tension-producing conflict emerges between the stepfamily’s two biological “subunits.”

Please match the following definitions with their appropriate terms.

                            is a more destructive form of                            .

Which of the following terms best describes parents who hover above and meddle excessively in their children’s lives?

Traditional fathers work                          hours than childless men, on average.