MARRIAGES AND FAMILIES CHAPTER 8
***COMPANIONATE MARRIAGE*** -
✅ In a companionate marriage, the spouses base their relationship on equality and
friendship on equality and friendship.
CONFLICT-HABITUATED MARRIAGE -
✅ A conflict-habituated marriage is characterized by tension and unresolved conflict.
***COVENANT MARRIAGE*** -
✅ A covenant marriage is an anti divorce contract in which couples demonstrate their
strong commitment to marriage by:
a. getting premarital counseling
b. getting marital counseling in times of marital difficulties
c. agreeing not to divorce until after a separation of two years or after proving adultery or domestic
abuse
***DEVITALIZED MARRIAGE*** -
✅ A devitalized marriage is one in which the partners have lost the strong emotional
connection they once had but stay together out of duty.
***EMPTY-NEST SYNDROME*** -
✅ A feeling of depression after the children have moved out or "fled the nest".
FAMILY LIFE CYCLE -
✅ In a family life cycle, members' roles and relationships change, largely depending on
how they have to adapt themselves to the absence or presence of child rearing reasponsibility.
***FLEXIBLE MARRIAGES*** -
✅ Flexible marriages allow the partners to change over time and to grow as individuals
and in the relationship.
GREEN-CARD MARRIAGE -
✅ Green card marriages is one in which an American marries or pretends to marry,
usually in exchange for money, an immigrant for the purpose of giving him or her a green card that
grants permanent United State residency.
HETEROGAMOUS MARRIAGES -
✅ Heterogamous marriages are those in which the partners are of different education,
ethnicity, race, religion, age, and/or social class.
***HOMOGAMOUS MARRIAGES*** -
✅ Homogamous marriages--that is, marriages between partners of similar education,
ethnicity, race, religion, age, and social class.
IDENTITY BARGAINING -
✅ The realities of the marriage oblige spouses to adjust their idealized expectations of
each other.
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, INTRINSIC MARRIAGES -
✅ Intrinsic marriages are marriages that are fundamentally rewarding, they have little
conflict and tension.
***LAUNCHING FAMILY*** -
✅ When the eldest child leaves home
***MARITAL SUCCESS*** -
✅ Marital success also called MARITAL QUALITY is measured in terms of stability,
happiness, and flexibility.
MARRIAGE -
✅ A legal union between a man and a woman.
MISCEGENATION -
✅ miscegenation is marriage or cohabitation between a white person and a person of
another race
PASSIVE-CONGENIAL MARRIAGE -
✅ In a passive-congenial marriage, the couple focuses on activities rather than emotional
intimacy, but unlike those in devitalized marriages, these couples seem always to have done so
PERMANENCE -
✅ Permanence means that the partners promise to stay together lifelong.
PERSONAL MARRIAGE AGREEMENT -
✅ A personal marriage agreement is a written agreement negotiated between married
couples in which partners specify how they will behave in aspects of the relationship--their
preferences, obligations, and sharing of labor and tasks.
***POSTNUPITAL AGREEMENT*** -
✅ A postnuptial agreement is the same as a prenuptial agreement except that it is worked
out by partners who are already married to each other. Most often, it is developed when one spouse
comes into an inheritance or starts a business or when there are children from a previous marriage
who need to be provided for.
PRENUPITAL AGREEMENT OR PREMARITAL AGREEMENT -
✅ A prenuptial or premarital agreement is a contract signed by the couple before the
wedding that specifies in advance how property will be divided and children cared for in the event
of divorce or one partner's death.
RESCUE MARRIAGE -
✅ Partners in a rescue marriage base their relationship on the index of healing. The point
of the marriage is to provide each other with comfort for past suffering and unhappiness of early
days or earlier relationships.
RITE OF PASSAGE -
✅ A rite of passage is an event signaling a major change from one social status to another.
engagement
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***COMPANIONATE MARRIAGE*** -
✅ In a companionate marriage, the spouses base their relationship on equality and
friendship on equality and friendship.
CONFLICT-HABITUATED MARRIAGE -
✅ A conflict-habituated marriage is characterized by tension and unresolved conflict.
***COVENANT MARRIAGE*** -
✅ A covenant marriage is an anti divorce contract in which couples demonstrate their
strong commitment to marriage by:
a. getting premarital counseling
b. getting marital counseling in times of marital difficulties
c. agreeing not to divorce until after a separation of two years or after proving adultery or domestic
abuse
***DEVITALIZED MARRIAGE*** -
✅ A devitalized marriage is one in which the partners have lost the strong emotional
connection they once had but stay together out of duty.
***EMPTY-NEST SYNDROME*** -
✅ A feeling of depression after the children have moved out or "fled the nest".
FAMILY LIFE CYCLE -
✅ In a family life cycle, members' roles and relationships change, largely depending on
how they have to adapt themselves to the absence or presence of child rearing reasponsibility.
***FLEXIBLE MARRIAGES*** -
✅ Flexible marriages allow the partners to change over time and to grow as individuals
and in the relationship.
GREEN-CARD MARRIAGE -
✅ Green card marriages is one in which an American marries or pretends to marry,
usually in exchange for money, an immigrant for the purpose of giving him or her a green card that
grants permanent United State residency.
HETEROGAMOUS MARRIAGES -
✅ Heterogamous marriages are those in which the partners are of different education,
ethnicity, race, religion, age, and/or social class.
***HOMOGAMOUS MARRIAGES*** -
✅ Homogamous marriages--that is, marriages between partners of similar education,
ethnicity, race, religion, age, and social class.
IDENTITY BARGAINING -
✅ The realities of the marriage oblige spouses to adjust their idealized expectations of
each other.
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, INTRINSIC MARRIAGES -
✅ Intrinsic marriages are marriages that are fundamentally rewarding, they have little
conflict and tension.
***LAUNCHING FAMILY*** -
✅ When the eldest child leaves home
***MARITAL SUCCESS*** -
✅ Marital success also called MARITAL QUALITY is measured in terms of stability,
happiness, and flexibility.
MARRIAGE -
✅ A legal union between a man and a woman.
MISCEGENATION -
✅ miscegenation is marriage or cohabitation between a white person and a person of
another race
PASSIVE-CONGENIAL MARRIAGE -
✅ In a passive-congenial marriage, the couple focuses on activities rather than emotional
intimacy, but unlike those in devitalized marriages, these couples seem always to have done so
PERMANENCE -
✅ Permanence means that the partners promise to stay together lifelong.
PERSONAL MARRIAGE AGREEMENT -
✅ A personal marriage agreement is a written agreement negotiated between married
couples in which partners specify how they will behave in aspects of the relationship--their
preferences, obligations, and sharing of labor and tasks.
***POSTNUPITAL AGREEMENT*** -
✅ A postnuptial agreement is the same as a prenuptial agreement except that it is worked
out by partners who are already married to each other. Most often, it is developed when one spouse
comes into an inheritance or starts a business or when there are children from a previous marriage
who need to be provided for.
PRENUPITAL AGREEMENT OR PREMARITAL AGREEMENT -
✅ A prenuptial or premarital agreement is a contract signed by the couple before the
wedding that specifies in advance how property will be divided and children cared for in the event
of divorce or one partner's death.
RESCUE MARRIAGE -
✅ Partners in a rescue marriage base their relationship on the index of healing. The point
of the marriage is to provide each other with comfort for past suffering and unhappiness of early
days or earlier relationships.
RITE OF PASSAGE -
✅ A rite of passage is an event signaling a major change from one social status to another.
engagement
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