According to the                                 , many of the benefits associated with marriage result from the personal characteristics of those who choose to marry.

                                      is similar to, but more rigid than                                   which is the belief that people tend to marry people of similar race, age, education, religious background, and social class.

Andrew Cherlin (2004) has described the                                      of marriage as the shift from institutional, companionate, to individualized marriage.

Love is not                                 , which involves maintaining relationships by consistently minimizing one’s own needs while trying to satisfy those of a partner.

                            is a more destructive form of                            .

In the Stepfamily Development Model created by Patricia Papernow, the                         stage is when tension-producing conflict emerges between the stepfamily’s two biological “subunits.”

Adults with a(n)                                attachment style exhibit possible negative behaviors such as unwarranted jealousy or attempts to control one’s partner due to fear of abandonment.

The level of domestic violence, or intimate partner violence (IPV), among cohabiting couples is                                  .

In the                       -pot system, economic resources are divided and distributed along biological lines, and are only secondarily distributed according to need.

British demographer Kathleen Kiernan (2002) has described a society-wide, four-stage process through which cohabitation becomes a socially acceptable living arrangement that is equal in status to marriage. Please identify the correct order of these four stages.