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Chapter Outline
Chapter Outline
Cohabitation: Unmarried-Couple
Households
Engagement
Why Do We Date?
1.
2.
3.
Why Do We Date?
4.
5.
2.
3.
College Dating
% Distribution
% Who Have
Had Sex
Median Age at
First Sex
Total
100.0
26.6
16.9
Male
53.4
29.7
16.6
Female
46.6
23.3
17.2
Personal principles
2.
Psychological principles
3.
Social principles
4.
Religious principles
Unwanted pregnancies
Quality of sex
2.
3.
5.
Statutory Rape
Statutory rape is the case in which
an adult has consensual sex with a
minor.
Cohabitation
A couples desire to spend more
time together may lead them to
cohabit, that is, live together without
marriage.
Cohabiting Relationships
Mate Selection
Mate Selection
First Impressions
Quick Quiz
c)
d)
a sex-without-commitment interaction.
couples who spend much of their time
together but rarely go out on formal
dates.
where time is loosely spent together
without explicit interest in one another.
None of these.
Answer: b
Propinquity
b)
Homogamy
c)
Endogamy
Exogamy
d)
Answer: d
Practical Purposes
Sex
Trial Marriage
All of the above
Answer: d