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Overview
In this segment, Dr. Robert Emery discusses historical trends in divorce. Dr. Emery is affiliated with the Department of Psychology, University of Virginia.

Web Connections
Statistics on divorce
http://www.divorcereform.org/stats.html

Social psychology on interpersonal relations
http://www.socialpsychology.org/social.htm#interpersonal



Pre-Test



1What considerations are the most important in deciding whether to marry someone? Is marriage simply a leap of faith?


2Do children of divorced parents tend to get divorced?


3What predicts that a marriage will end in divorce?

Post-Test



4The risk of divorce for children whose parents divorced in the 1940s and 1950s is 20-25%.
A)True
B)False


5It is highly likely that the children of parents divorced in the 1970s will have the same rate of divorce.
A)True
B)False


6Because divorce was less acceptable and less common in the 1940s and 1950s, those who divorced probably had more troubled marriage than those divorced in the 1970s.
A)True
B)False


7It's important to be very certain, beyond a shadow of doubt, that your marriage will work, before jumping into marriage.
A)True
B)False





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