Question

Researchers who have studied the effects of cohabitation on marriage have concluded that cohabitating couples:

Select one:

a. are less likely to get divorced after marriage.

b. are more likely to get divorced after marriage.

c. have a stronger commitment after they get married.

d. have the same divorce rates as non-cohabiting couples.

John married Anna. They got divorced several years later. Anna married another man, Fred. He died before Anna. After his death, Anna married her neighbor. Which one of the following describes Anna's marriage?

Select one:

a. Polygamy

b. serial monogamy

c. polyandry

d. polygyny

Answer 1

Cohabitation which is also known as living-in together before legal consummation. Researchers suggested that couples who cohabitate before getting married are more likely to get divorced than couples who live together after they are married. Cohabitation or living with another person makes couples take each other for granted way earlier in their relationship which results in divorce after rmarriage.

Thus, the correct answer is option, B.

Serial monogamy refers to being in short-lived marriages and moving from one partner to another. As the name suggests, it is having one partner after the other, however, only one at a time. Anna's marriage describes as serial monogamy as she has multiple partners at different times. However, only one at a time.

Thus, the correct answer is option, B.