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Chapter 13: Marriage and Family

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Chapter 13 — Marriage and Family is a crowd-pleaser and ranks as one of the students’ favorite chapters every semester. What’s the appeal? Probably that students have all been part of a family and will likely be in and out of relationships all of their life, so it is very practical. Students report they enjoy reading about homogamy as it sheds light on who they will pick as a partner or spouse. In fact, you will learn that your choices of a partner or spouse may be different than you assumed.

The other practical aspect is the topic of divorce and the factors that predict divorce. Most everyone wants to reduce their chances of divorcing, and sociological research indicates factors that cause divorce.

Are you consistently utilizing retrieval practice, elaboration, spaced retrieval, interleaving, and calibration? Don’t forget to use your notebook to write everything down and get it out of your brain and onto paper to reduce your stress. Additionally, remember to transfer the items in your notebook to your daily TO-DO list and schedule when you will study a week in advance. 

As you have learned, it is important to maximize the power of beliefsexpertiseself-motivation, and relationships. Have you added items from your action plan to your TO-DO list? Implementing these lessons with the science of happiness will help you get one step closer to your academic goals!

SYlvester and SYlvia

Chapter Content

Introduction
Summary and References