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homogamy

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ho·mog·a·my (h-mg-m)
n.
Reproduction within a group that perpetuates qualities or traits that distinguish the group from a larger group of which it is part. Also called inbreeding.


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Topics include the social significance of relationships, leaving home, the social significance of homogamy, young child-parent relationships, early labor market experience and the timing of family formation, and unemployment and the dissolution of partnerships.
We included five Wave 2 measures of partner and relationship characteristics that retrospectively describe the teenager's first sexual partner: self-defined partner type (comparing romantic relationships with liked relationships), teenager-partner homogamy index, an index of dating activities before first sex, age at first sex with partner and length of relationship before first sex.
This is consistent with past research by Chinitz and Brown (2001) which demonstrated that as religious homogamy increases, marital stability increases and marital conflict decreases.
 
 
 
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