11.Women and men initiate verbal or physical aggression in about equal numbers.
12.Researchers have consistently found that physical aggression is more common in married couples than in cohabiting couples.
13.Females view males in more sexual terms than males view females.
14.Premarital cohabitation appears to raise the risk of subsequent marital dissolution.
15.The presence of children seems to have a stabilizing effect on cohabitation relationships.
16.In some states, a divorced person who is receiving alimony may lose it for cohabiting.
17.The tendency to marry individuals similar to ourselves is called propinquity.
18.The increasing levels of education and workforce participation among women have little impact on marriage.
19.Wives' education appears to be unrelated to marital stability.
20.Same-sex marriages have no legal standing and there is no pressure to recognize such marriages.
21.Some people tend to avoid highly attractive individuals in order to enhance their own chances of acceptance.
22.Meeting via the Internet has lessened the importance of attractiveness as an early factor in meeting another person.
23.Engagement is the culmination of courtship.
24.The phrase "absence makes the heart grow fonder" is often used to describe short, romantic engagements.
25.A truly successful engagement period leads either to a successful marriage or to a broken engagement.