11.Optimists feel that the wide variety of acceptable relationships now available to Americans allows people to create the family that is best for them.
12.Human beings have the shortest dependency period of any mammal.
13.Conscious decisions are made without knowing or without awareness.
14.Not deciding is still a form of making a decision.
15.Many societies have formal procedures for teaching decision-making skills.
16.Skillful decision making also takes into account the emotions of others who will be affected by your decisions.
17.The first step in the decision-making process is to evaluate your resources.
18.There is usually a perfectly logical basis for making an intuitive or common sense decision.
19.Quick decisions are always bad decisions.
20.We have the ability to learn and choose much of our behavior.
21.A theory must always be factually correct in order to make successful predictions.
22.Exchange theory examines personal interactions in terms of meanings and symbols.
23.Systems theory stresses the importance of subjective awareness.
24.Problems arise when the experimental method is applied to humans.
25.The family endures because it is a flexible institution with great resilience.