is the idea that heterosexuality is the only “normal, acceptable, or real option” which has been successfully challenged over the years.

The term                                             describes households that expand or contract around more or fewer family members, depending on family needs.

The goal of policy makers from the                            perspective is to return to a society more in line with the values and norms of companionate marriage.

According to the                                 , many of the benefits associated with marriage result from the personal characteristics of those who choose to marry.

                                      is similar to, but more rigid than                                   which is the belief that people tend to marry people of similar race, age, education, religious background, and social class.

Love is not                                 , which involves maintaining relationships by consistently minimizing one’s own needs while trying to satisfy those of a partner.

In the                       -pot system, economic resources are divided and distributed along biological lines, and are only secondarily distributed according to need.

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.