Exam 8: Living Alone, Cohabiting, Same-Sex Unions, and Other Intimate Relationships

About __________ of all nonmarital births occur to cohabiting couples.

From a variety of national surveys, demographers estimate that about __________ percent of gay men are "currently partnered."

Describe several factors that are related to happiness, satisfaction, and lack of loneliness in singlehood. Identify differences as they are reported to exist between males and females and between younger and older singles.

An emerging alternative to marriage is __________, where a couple is engaged in a long-term relationship, but each partner also maintains a separate dwelling.

Sociologist E. Kay Trimberger identified several "pillars of support" for unattached single women. Which of the following is NOT one of these "pillars"?

___________ of Americans favor allowing same-sex couples to enter into legal agreements, such as civil unions and domestic partnerships, that would give them many of the same rights as married couples.

Which category (all ages) is least likely to live alone?

The likelihood of living alone is highest for which group according to age and gender?

Today, __________ percent of all first births occur to a cohabiting mother.

Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the United States had more men than women.

Compared to marrieds, cohabitants report that they are __________ happy with their relationships.

By 2005 it was estimated that _________ of U.S. women age 15 through 45 had cohabited with a male partner at some time in their lives

__________ marriages are heterosexual, conjugal unions that have not gone through a legal marriage ceremony.

By 2008 opposite-sex, unmarried-couple households were ______ percent of all households.

Compared to married couples, cohabitors are all EXCEPT which of the following ?

The text points out that one reason for the declining perceived advantages of marriage is that today, society views being single as a(n) __________ lifestyle.

The definition of domestic partner usually includes criteria of joint residence and finances, as well as a statement of loyalty and commitment.

When unmarried partners decide to move in together, there are

According to the text, unmarried parents to one partner's child should consider three documents. Which of the following is NOT one of these?

Barbara Simon interviewed fifty never-married women old enough to be retired and concluded that the most common thread of identity these women shared was their