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28. How do girls react to stepfathers?29. What are the recent co-habitation rates?30. What is the main reason young people give for co-habitation? How long doesthe arrangement usually last? What percentage eventually get married?31. What does research show us about the emotional adjustment of homosexualcouples? What is the break up rate among hetero, gay and lesbian couples?CHAPTER 7: Men and Women/Together and Apart1. Contrary to stereotypes, what group is having the most sex? What threefactors seem associated with this?2. How often are your ma and pa sexually active? How often do they engage inself-stimulation? (Hint: find their age ranges and look at survey results).3. What three demographic trends have been cited to explain why youngercohorts report a larger total number of sexual partners than earliergenerations?4. What sexual advantage does the male age group 50 to 75 have over the 20 to40 year olds?5. What group reported being the most physically pleased and emotionallysatisfied with their sex lives?6. What advantages of their sexual lives do the elderly comment on?7. What is the gender difference involved in extramarital affairs?8. What percentage of the female population has experienced rape? What agecohort is at most risk?9. What are the characteristics of sexually aggressive males?10. What factors contribute to modern divorce rates?11. What were the reasons for lower divorce rates in the past?12. Are most divorces mutually shared decisions?13. What is the difference in emotional toll of the spouse who initiates the divorcevs. the other spouse?14. What is the marriage profile for college educated midlife women?15. What happens to father-child relationships once the father leaves?16. For whom is the risk of mental illness and depression the greatest, widows orwidowers?CHAPTER 8: Careers – Earning a Living1. The family influences vocational development in what two major ways?2. How does social class influence children’s perceptions of their jobs?3. What is the most consistent predictor of a daughter’s aspirations toward anontraditional career?4. Describe most jobs held by teenagers.5. What did the longitudinal study of AT&T managers discover in the relationshipof various college experiences to job success, etc?6. What is “early professional socialization”? What is “the Dream”?7. What is “reality shock”?8. What have large-scale studies found about gender differences in selection formentoring and outcomes?9. Describe employee loyalty in dual income couples.10. What is “self-ethic” vs. “work ethic”?11. What are the “spillover effects”? What did the Cornell study suggest abouthow women vs. men are affected?12. What has happened to a single career concept?