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Question 1: Please describe what is meant by the term "marriage". What are some of the benefits of postponing marriage? What are the costs?
Question 2: In the United States, there is a significant rate of divorce. Please describe the following: What is the divorce rate, the divorce estimate, or the ratios of marriage to divorce? And finally, which do you think is the most important statistic and why?
Question 3: In relationships there are three relationship fault lines that are related to gender. Please identify and describe all three.
Question 4: What is social support? Give examples from your own life to illustrate your definition.
Question 5: How do some parents view corporal punishment in more positive ways than others?
Question 6: What are the three primary adult styles of attachment? Please discuss each of them.
Question 7: Describe basic trends in mortality and fertility in the United States. How have you seen these trends play out in your family, and how have they affected you?
Question 8: According to Cherlin, Americans enter and exit relationships at a greater rate than Europeans. What are the reasons for this? Should we "slow down" in our pursuit of relationships? If so, why?