Exam 6: Partnering and Marriage Formation

Over the past several decades, the general trend around the world in age at marriage appears to be slightly lower or to remain constant.

Research tends to support the idea that interfaith marriages have a secularizing effect on children, that is, children who are weakly religious.

The number of marriages per 1,000 population is referred to as the

Evidence suggests that women married to younger men tend to live longer than expected while women married to older men tend to die sooner than expected.

What factors foster intermarriage? Indicate the conditions which would increase the likelihood that your children would marry exogamously.

The United States, along with most societies in the world, approaches a "free-choice" model of mate selection.

A marriage __________ hypothesis suggests that marriage provides a buffer against physical and emotional pathology.

National data suggest that religious endogamy in the United States is highest for

Studies indicate that the unmarried are generally happier and less stressed than the married.

The mating gradient works to prevent marriage for many

What types of factors tend to explain variations in marriage rates over time?

From an exchange theory perspective, the social advantages of hypergamy seem to exist primarily for the

The number of males per 100 females is the __________.

Removal of the legal prohibition against interracial marriage in the United States came in

The seasonal low for marriage in the United States tends to occur in

By sex, most black-white marriages occur between black __________ and white __________.

The trend in interracial marriage over the past several decades is

Most interracial marriages in the United States occur between

Women married to younger men tend to:

__________ describes marriage to a person outside of one's own sociocultural group.