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In the 1950's, the number of pregnant brides more than doubled from the 1940s.

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According to the U.S. Census Bureau, about 15 million people live within a cohabitive situation.

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To many, marriage is a sacred act. From the text, please discuss the religious aspect of marriage and how it affects society.

The ________ is the family unit that is formed when we marry and produce children.

_________ view themselves as truly independent entities from the society in which they live, and their personal needs and rights guide their behavior, rather than the needs of the society.

Our ________ is the family in which we are born or brought into by adoption.

Which of the following may be family life educators?

Please define cenogamy, and provide an example from the text in which cenogamy may be practiced.

What is a "nuclear family"?

Many factors have influenced our contemporary understanding of family and family life. Explain.

In general terms, define marriage and describe what benefits marriage brings to a couple?

________ is the belief that monogamy is the only true, morally and socially appropriate type of marriage or love relationship.

Explain the root causes of single-parent households.

In this model of family studies, Russian-born Uri Bronfenbrenner seeks to understand the multiple influences that affect individuals' and families' development over their lifetime.

Compare and contrast family of origin and family of procreation.

As the United States moved into the second half of the twentieth century, a number of change factors occurred that continue to have an impact on today's twenty-first-century families and family living. Which of the following is NOT one of those changes?

The practice of having more than one marriage partner is called what?

________ refers to the broad spectrum of demographic and philosophical differences among groups of people within a culture.

Individuals in these cultures define their identity in terms of the relationships they hold with others.

________ is a form of marriage that is often referred to as group marriage. In this type of marital community, every man and woman is married to each other at the same time.