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| Residence of a couple in a shared household, with mutual sexual access, but without legal sanction; essentially an informal marriage. |
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| A process of acquaintance, selection, and attachment between potential mates that leads to the formation of sexual ties and possibly marriage. |
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| Efforts to shape and control one's emotions by socially defining them through conversations or personal reflections on ones's feelings. |
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| Marriage to a partner within the same group, clan, tribe, or ethnicity. |
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| Theory that love is based on an equal exchange of social resources between partners. |
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| The tendency for people to marry those with similar social characteristics. |
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| The tendency for people to associate with those having similar social characteristics and status. |
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| The tendency of women to marry into higher social class. |
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| Interaction Ritual (theory) |
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| Any activity in everyday life that brings persons together, focuses their attention on a common activity or set of symbols, and builds up a shared emotion or mood, resulting in a feeling of group membership. |
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| Marriage or cohabitation between persons of different races. |
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| Nearness of physical location. |
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| Expelling a fetus or embryo from the uterus either spontaneously or via medical procedures. |
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| Deliberately refraining from sexual intercourse. |
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| Sex education policy that advocates not having sexual intercourse as the only acceptable means of contraception. |
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| Sex education policy that advocates not having sexual intercourse as the preferable means of contraception, but also includes discussion of alternative means of contraception. |
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| Medical test performed during pregnancy to determine the presence of birth defects and the sex of the child. |
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| The number of births in a specified population per unit of time. |
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| Comprehensive sex education |
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| Sex education that treats abstinence as one option in a broader sex education program that considers various contraceptive methods to prevent pregnancy and avoid sexually transmitted diseases. |
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| Science that deals with the improvement (as by control of human mating) of hereditary qualities of a race or breed. |
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| Termination of pregnancy by nonsurgical means, such as by taking RU-486. |
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| Methotrexate-misoprostol regimen |
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| Medical abortion method by which methotrexate blocks folic acid and prevents cell decision; misoprostol is a prostaglandin causing uterine contractions. |
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| Mifepristone-misoprostol regimen |
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| Medical abortion method by which mifepristone (RU-486) blocks production of hormone progesterone, which is needed for pregnancy; misoprostol is a prostaglandin causing uterine contractions. |
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| The number of pregnancies per specified population of women (usually 1,000 women between the ages of fifteen and forty-four). |
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| Occurs when birthrates and death rates are approximately equal so that the population does not grow but remains stable. |
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| The legal status that ensures to same-sex couples specified rights and responsibilities of married couples |
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| A marriage in which both wife and husband are committee to full-time occupational careers. |
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| Economic Dependency Models |
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| Woman make a contract with the husband to exchange household labor in return for economic support. |
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| Who makes the decisions within the household determined by occupation, income and education. |
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| Typically a role held by women. They are responsible for planning an initiate the majority of household chores. |
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| Interaction, disagreement, satisfaction, instability and a variety of marital problems. |
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| Marital Economy of Gratitude |
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| Husbands' and wives' images of themselves as masculine or feminine encouraged them to see some actions in their marriage as gifts or burdens. |
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| Person with more income will do less housework. |
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| When people spend more time in paid work they will spend less time doing housework. |
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| The bias introduced when groups are not equivalent before an event occurs (cohabitation, marriage, divorce, remarriage). |
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| Tendency to answer questions in a conventional way that takes them appear to be happier than they probably are. |
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| Marriage with relatively few emotional ties, held together by practical concerns over social status and career. |
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| Individualistic Model of Parenting |
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| Suburban housewife, breadwinner husband, station wagon, dog stop, and 2.4 children. |
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| Reward, punishment, shame and love. |
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| Income paid to support a divorces spouse. |
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