Exam 15: The Dissolution of Marriage

Marriages where the wife earns a higher percentage of the household income are:

Cox and Demmitt believe that the most appropriate term for describing American marriages is:

Explain the feeling of family counselors that the problems surrounding divorce are often far worse than the problems within the marriage.

The crude divorce rate is the ratio of divorces to:

The credo of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers is to preserve the best interest of the:

A divorce where there is a minimum of conflict and the marital relationship is gradually transformed into friendship is known as a creative divorce.

The partner who initiates a divorce has more power in the break-up process.

Cox and Demmitt's plan for reducing the divorce rate includes all of the following elements EXCEPT:

Divorce statistics indicate that the institutions of marriage and the family are in a state of decay and breakdown.

The most important divorce is the:

It is important for anger to be part of divorce, because anger may be the means of finally breaking the emotional bonds that remain between the former spouses.

Compare the four choices of child custody.

The inability to accept the partner the way he or she is or to accept unwanted change in a partner is at the root of most:

Adolescents tend to react to divorce with:

____ does not prepare divorcing couples for the traumas and problems they will experience, nor does it encourage them to reevaluate their broken marriages and themselves.

In the early days of the women's movement, some feminists regarded alimony as a:

Walsh found that it was easier for children to adjust to divorce if both parents continued to:

No-fault divorce laws are based on the idea that a marriage can be terminated without:

Residency requirements for divorce are mandatory in:

Compare the economic consequences of divorce for husbands and wives.