The process of meeting people socially for possible mate selection
What is dating
100
The term for marriages between partners who are similar in education, ethnicity, and social class
What is Homogamous
100
This parenting style is demanding, controlling, rigid, and punitive
What is authoritarian
100
Living apart before getting a divorce
What is separation
100
The term for individuals who are taking care of one's own children's and aging parents
What is sandwich generation
200
This term means geographic closeness
What is propinquity
200
A living arrangement in which two unrelated people, who aren't married, live together and are in a sexual relationship
What is cohabitation
200
The parenting style that is considered to be the most effective in contributing to healthy child development
What is authoritative
200
Monetary payments by the noncustodial parent to the custodial parent to help pay for child-rearing expenses
What is child support
200
A place for the care of terminally ill patients
What is hospice
300
The term for singles would like to like to marry and are actively seeking a mate
What is involuntary temporary
300
The process of partners negotiating adjustments to their new married roles
What is identity bargaining
300
This is an arrangement where a woman carries and delivers a child for another person
What is surrogacy
300
A court mandated ruling regarding which divorced parent will have the primary responsibility for the children's upbringing
What is custody
300
People who spend at 27 weeks in the labor force but whose wages fall below the official poverty level
What is working poor
400
Dating or marrying someone with social characteristics that differ from your own
What is heterogamy
400
The formalization of a couple's decision to marry
What is engagement
400
This procedure involves surgically removing eggs from a woman's ovaries, fertilizing them in a petri dish with sperm, and transferring the embryos into the woman's uterus
What is in vitro fertilization
400
Divorce where neither partner has to establish guilt or wrongdoing of the other
What is no-fault
400
A condition that describes a woman who has experienced many years of physical abuse but feels unable to leave her partner
What is battered-woman syndrome
500
The theory that people sift eligible mates according to specific criteria and thus reduce the pool of potential partners to a small number of candidates
What is filter theory
500
The theory that marriage itself makes people healthier both from receiving emotional, physical, and financial support from a spouse and because marriage decreases risky behaviors
What is the protection effect
500
In this type of adoption, there is communication between the adoptive parents, birth parents, and adopted children, but through a third party
What is semi-open adoption
500
The station of divorce where couples typically argue about who should pay past debts, property taxes, and new expenses
What is economic
500
A legal document that specifies the medical treatments a person would like to receive if incapacitated