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There are more unmarried women than there are unmarried men   True  
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A majority of african americans adults are unmarried   True  
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Both the pressure to marry and the attractions of marriage have greatly increase over the past few decades   False  
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Unmarried women and men are subjected to numerous unflattering stereotypes and often encounter discrimarotry treatment   True  
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Cohabitation has become part of the courtship process among young adults   True  
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Most cohabiting couples choose to live together because they don't perceive marriage as a desirable goal   False  
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Cohabitation is more common among college educated adults   False  
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Only same gender cohabiting couples can enter into legal domestic partnership   False  
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Most same gender cohabiting couples are dual earners   True  
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Unlike most human behavior, sexual behavior is instinctive   False  
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A significant number of women require manual or oral stimulation of the clitoris to experience orgasm   True  
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It is normal for children to engage in sexual experimentation with other children of both sexes   True  
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Kissing is the most common and most acceptable sexual activity   True  
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A decline in frequency of intercourse almost always indicate problems in the marital relationship   False  
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Most married women and men have had an extramarital relationship   False  
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Bisexuality is more widely accepted than male homosexuality or lesbianism   False  
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Partners in cohabiting relationships are more likely to be sexually unfaithful than married couples   True  
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Because of their knowledge, college students rarely put themselves at risk for sexually transmitted infections   False  
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Condoms are ineffective at preventing pregnancy of protecting against sexually transmitted infections   False  
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A high value of romantic love is unique in the united states   False  
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The development of mutual dependence is an important factor in love   True  
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Love and commitment are inseparable   False  
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Friendship and love share many characteristics   True  
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Men fall in love more quickly than women   True  
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Heterosexuals, gay men and lesbian are equally likely to fall in love   True  
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In many ways, love is like the attachment an infant experiences for a parent or primary caregiver   True  
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A high degree of jealously is a sign of true love   False  
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Partners with different styles of loving are likely to have more satisfying relationships because their styles and complementary   False  
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Love is something experienced and expressed similarly by people of their ethic or racial backgrounds   False  
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Trends in cohabitions and divorces clearly indicate a decrease in the importance of marriage in the U.S.   False  
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Couple who are unhappy before marriage significantly increase their happiness after marriage   False  
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Compared to adults in other Western countries, more Americans tend to agree that marriage is an outdated situations   False  
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Most interracial marriages are between African American men and Caucasian women   False (only 1/4)  
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Racial intermarriage is more common among highly educated people than among the less educated   True  
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The advent of children generally increases a couples marital satisfaction   False (may increase or decrease depending on the situation) (lower satisfaction and increase conflict w/ children in the household)  
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Having children is a decline in leisure activities   True  
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Marital satisfaction declines in the early years of marriage even among non parents   True  
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Three types of marital commitment   Personal commitment, moral commitment (forever and always), structural commitment (awareness of alternatives/ lost opportunities if you leave the relationship)  
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Product of love and satisfaction   Personal commitment  
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Product of our attitudes about marriage & divorce, "personal contact with our spouse"   Moral commitment  
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Product of alternatives   Structural commitment  
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Marital quality was lower among couples experiencing higher average levels of stress   True  
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During times of elevated stress, more relationship problems were perceived & partners negative behaviors were more often viewed as selfish, blameworthy   True  
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Blue collared husbands were more likely than white collared husbands to respond with negative affect to negative affect their wives in problem-solving discussions   True  
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Air traffic controllers, on high stress days express less...   Anger and less emotional withdrawal  
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200 African Americans living in more distressed areas, express less..   Warmth and hostility  
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When people marry they still have strong ties to their parents, until the wedding   True  
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Better the relationship with one in-law than the better the relationship is to be more happy   True  
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Formal task is to form a family that is interdependent rather than independent or dependent   True  
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Married women & men are less involved with their parents than..   Non married or previously married  
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Divorce women & men are less involved are less involved with there parents than..   Never married people  
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Married people are less likely to socialize with friends or neighbors than   Never married or previously married  
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Once married couples have children they show more similarity to the never married or previously married by   Practical or emotional help  
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Four assumptions for husband & wife:   Husband the head of the household, the husband is responsible for support the family, the wife is responsible for domestic work, the wife is responsible for children  
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Accumulation over time of various factors such as unresolved conflicts, poor communication, grievances, role overload   Duration-of-marriage-effect  
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Primary adjustment tasks:   Establish marital & family roles Provide emotional support for partner Adjust personal habits Negotiate gender roles Make sexual adjustment Establish priorities  
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Interaction process of role adjustment   Identity bargaining  
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Identity bargaining is a Three step process:   1st: identify role you are performing 2nd: person must be treated by others as if they fulfill that role 3rd: two people must negotiate changes in each other's roles  
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Newly couples are affectionate, very much in love   Blissful harmony  
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One year into marriage the average says "i love you" and has sexual intercourse half as often as they were newly wed   True  
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Falling in love and the emotional connection   Emotional marriage  
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Change in an individuals identity from an autonomous individual to a partner couple   Psychic marriage  
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Changes in social relationships & social networks   Community marriage  
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Provides a couple with a host of responsibilities   Legal marriage  
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Economic changes when you marry   Economic marriage  
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Changes induced in marriage relationship by the arrival of children   Copartnal marriage  
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Dividing, managing and performing house chores   Domestic marriage  
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Living together before marriage but not legally recognized until wedding   Cohabition  
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Symbolizes a couples commitment to each other   Weddings  
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First stage of begins with engagement or cohabitation followed by a wedding   Family life cycle  
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Today, in contrast to past engagement has more significance as a ritual than as a binding commitment to be married   True  
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Engagements average between..   16-18 months  
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Number of social and psychological issues during engagement period:   Anxiety Maturation and dependency needs Losses Partner choice Gender-role conflict Idealization Marital expectations Self-knowledge (understand yourself)  
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Courtship sets the stage of marriage   True  
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Three courtship & marital outcomes:   Rocky & turbulent courtship: upset, anger, jealousy Sweet & undramatic courtships: partners are "good hearts" Passionate courtships: plugging into love, having sex early in the relationship> more vulnerable to divorce  
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The most important factor of marriage is..   Age  
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People who marry young are at greater risk of fail   True (divorce)  
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Early marriage is associated with reduced educational attainment   True  
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Trend in the U.S. has been delaying marriage   True  
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Women are twice than men to marry early   True  
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Married couples are better off financially than others   True  
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Living in a household that earns 10 times the poverty level, married couples are more likely to attain this   Afluence  
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Married people tend to live healthier   True  
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The belief that people select spouses those whose needs are different from our own "Opposites attract"   Complementary needs theory  
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Gratification follows from finding someone who feels/ thinks like we do "Birds of feathers flock together"   Value theory/role theory  
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We seek partners similar to our opposite-sex partner   Parental image theory  
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What happens between the "magic moment" with its chemistry and decision to maintain a long-term relationship such as marriage   Stimulus-value-role theory  
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Each person drawn to each other before actual interaction   Stimulus stage  
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Partner weigh each others basic values, seeking compatibility   Value stage  
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Each person analyzes the others behaviors or how the person fulfills there love roles   Role stage  
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Explain Marriage patterns:   Preferences of individuals for resources in a partner The influence of one's peer group The constraints of marriage market  
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Intermarriage can decrease the importance of cultural differences because the children of mixed marriages are less likely to identify themselves with a single group   True  
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Through intermarriage, individuals may question and lose negative attitudes they have toward other groups   True  
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Never married people are more likely to marry never married people   True  
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Never married people who marry divorced partners find that they have to deal with lower amounts of resources   True  
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Occurs more as a result of deliberate choices   Marital history homogamy  
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The tendency we have to select partners from a geographically limited locale   Residential propinquity  
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An important factor affecting the marriage market is the ration of men to women   True  
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Gender imbalance reflected in the ratio of available unmarried women and men   Marriage squeeze  
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18-44 there are more unmarried women than men   True  
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Tendency for women to marry men of higher status   Mating gradient  
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Americans tend to marry those of similar ages   True  
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Marry those similar to us (same race, religion); fear of those who are different than ourselves   Endogamy  
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Requires us to marry outside certain groups   Exogamy  
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The tendency to choose a mate whose personal or group characteristics are similar to us   Homogamy/positive assortative mating  
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Tendency to chose a mate whose personal or group characteristics differ from our own   Heterogamy  
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Strongest pressure toward homogamy   True  
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Most important factors of homogamy:   Race, ethnicity, religion, personality characteristics  
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Most marriages are between members of the same races   True; 98% the same race; 7% different race  
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Interracial marriage has increased over highly educated people   True  
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Puerto rican women & men are least likely to marry white spouses, more likely to marry..   True, African Americans  
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Puerto Ricans are more likely than African Americans to marry whites   True  
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_____ of intermarriages are between blacks and whites   1/4  
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_____between and Black ann white women   1/3  
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Interracial marriages have been found to divorce   True  
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Fertility rates vary by..   Education Income  
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30% between age 40-44 did not have children   False, 20%  
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40% of births to unmarried women   True  
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Difficulty conceiving or carrying a pregnancy to term   Impaired fecundity  
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____ adopted children under age 18   1.6 million  
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___ under age 18   2.5%  
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More high school males than females had sexual intercourse   True  
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Sexuality attracted to the other gender   Heterosexaul  
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Strong dislike fear, or hatred of lesbians/gays because of there sexuality   Antigay prejudice  
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Irrational phobic fear or gay men and lesbians   Homophobia  
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Bias/ discrimination in favor of heterosexuals   Heterosexism  
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Victimized least: Victimized most:   Physically attacked, sexually assaulted, beaten Verbally assaulted or abused  
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Gay men are more likely to experience such victimization than lesbian/bisexuals   True  
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Becoming bisexual:   Confusion Finding an label Settling into the identity Continual of uncertainty  
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There are more single women than men   True  
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Factors why there are so many single adults:   Delayed marriage, expanded education, increase rate of divorce, more liberal standards, uneven ration of unmarried women and men  
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Starts with the male at puberty and the production of sperm is regulated by hormones   Spermatogenis  
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Each woman is born with her life supply of ova, and between ___ and ____ eggs eventually mature and leave her ovaries during ovulation   300 & 500  
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Fertilized egg travels down the fallopian tube, diving to form a tiny clump of cells   Zygote  
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When it reaches the uterus it burrows into the endomentrium, the lining of the uterus   Implantation  
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15-44% of women the ages 15-44 have used a birth control method at least once   True  
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11% do not use birth control method   True  
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Half of three million pregnancies each year are unintended   True  
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14,000 put there children up for adoption   True  
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__ million women have abortions   1.3  
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___ women & men have gotten pregnant unintentionally   2%  
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Block the meeting of egg and sperm by means of physical barrier (diaphram, cervical cap)   Barrier contraceptives  
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Condoms are second to the pill for college educated   True  
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Act as a barrier by blocking the entrance to the uterus and absorbing and deactivating sperm   Sponge  
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Chemical foams, jellies, film   Vaginal spermicide  
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Failure rates of vaginal suppositories are as high as..   10-25%  
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A thin two inch square film laced with spermicide is folded and inserted into the vagina, it dissolves   Film  
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Non hormonal, latex free   Fem cap  
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Release a constant dose of estrogen and progestin throughout a women's menstrual cycle   Monophasic pills  
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Normal hormonal fluctuations of the natural menstrual cycle by providing different level of estrogen and progerstore at different times of the month   Multiphasic pills  
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Contain only a small amount of progestin and no estrogen   Minipill  
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A small piece of molded plastic, with a nylon string attached, that is inserted into the uterus through the cervix, it prevents pregnancy by interfering with the implantation   IUD  
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To terminate pregnancy   Medical abortion  
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A surgical sterilization procedure in which the fallopian tubes are observed, with a laparotscope inserted through a small incision, and then cut or blocked   Laparoscopy  
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Done from 7-13 weeks after the last menstraul cycle, involves the gradual dilation (opening) of the cervix, often by inserting into the cervix one or more sticks of the laminaria   Suction currettage  
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Enhancement of a woman's health and well being prior to conception in order to ensure a healthy pregnancy and baby--include risk assessment   Preconception care  
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70% of babies are still born to women in their 20's   True  
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