Exam 5: Courtship and Marriage

The sociologist Jessie Bernard argued that every marriage contains two marriages, the

Today's unmarried young adults are more likely to be in which living situations?

Liberal social critics believe that marriage is a dying institution in American society.

The institution of marriage is less valued today than it was in the 1950's.

Birth rates for unmarried women have fallen more slowly than those of married women.

Between the 1950s and the 1970s, American attitudes towards marriage changed dramatically as part of what scholars have called