When older couples remarry, why are their marriages often so successful?

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word.


1. Elders usually do not have to worry about stepparenting issues to the same degree as younger remarried couples.
2. Older adults may be financially established and therefore experience less stress and crisis over money.
3. Older adults may benefit from the wisdom that comes from a lifetime of experience and seek partners who offer comfort and companionship.

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A. They are static and unchanging. B. Institutions are not linked. C. People change institutions. D. New institutions are created in response to social change. E. Social institutions do not meet a society's needs.

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People in __________ are more likely to have realized the benefits of industrialization than people in __________, who bear the brunt of environmental degradation.

A) poor nations; India and the Maldives B) the U.S.; the U.K. C) affluent nations; poor nations D) China; the U.S.

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__________ Buddhism, which focuses on the life of the Buddha and seeks to follow his teachings, gained its strongest toehold in Southeast Asia

a. Theravadin b. Mahayana c. Vajrayana d. Nirvana

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In preindustrial societies, kinship is usually traced through one parent (unilineally). The most common pattern of unilineal descent is __________, which is a system of tracing descent through the father’s side of the family.?

a. patriarchal descent
b. patrilineal descent
c. patrilocal descent
d. patricentric descent

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