| A | B |
|---|
| homogamy | An explanation for attraction based on similarity between partners. |
| complementary needs | An explanation for attration based on partners who meet and complete each other's personality needs. |
| propinquity | Nearness in time or place. |
| readiness | Certain qualities and conditions that indicate whether a person is prepared for marriage. |
| institution of marriage | Marriage as a way of living. |
| engagement | A promise or intention to marry. |
| premarital counseling | Getting advice from trained professionals before marriage. |
| contract | A binding agreement. |
| prenuptial agreements | An agreement regarding special concerns made by a couple before their wedding. |
| marriage commitment | Desire to make a marriage work. |
| U-shaped curve | A pattern that describes something that starts at a high level, rops as time progresses, and then rises again. |
| intimacy | Closeness that develops in a personal relationship. |
| estranged | Alienated from each other. |
| mutual | A decision upon which both partners agree. |
| parenting | the process of caring for children and helping them grow and learn. |
| genetic diseases | Illnesses passed from parent to child through heredity. |
| infertility | The inability to have children. |
| fertility | The ability to have children. |
| adoption | Legal process of taking a child of other parents as one's own. |
| closed adoption | An adoption procedure in which the identities of the birth parents and adoptive parents are not revealed to each other. |
| open adoption | An adoption procedure in which the identities of the birth parents and adoptive parents are made known to each other. |
| parenting readiness | Degree of preparation for parenting. |
| child development | A description of what children are like at each stage of growth. |
| conception | The uniting of the male and female reproductive cells. |
| sperm | The male reproductive cell. |
| ovum | The female reproductive cell. |
| prenatal | The period from conception to birth. |
| motor skills | Abilities that depend on the use and control of muscles, especially those in the arms, legs, hands, and feet. |
| monitor | To check and keep track of. |
| authoritarian style | A parenting style based on the belief that children should obey their parents without hesitation or question. |
| authoritative style | Parenting style which parents set limits, standards, and goals but base expectations on children's abilities and stage of development. |
| permissive style | A parenting style in which parents tend to let children set their own goals, rules, and limits. |
| discipline | The process of helping children learn to behave in acceptable ways. |
| time-out | A disciplinary method involving removal of a child from the presence of others or from the center of activity for a short time. |
