Author Question: According to the information about the death of an intimate partner, a. lesbians whose life ... (Read 108 times)

formula1 · **on:** Jun 21, 2018

According to the information about the death of an intimate partner,

a. lesbians whose life partner has died often report that they would appreciate the kind of social support that a widowed heterosexual woman receives.
b. during the past 10 years, psychologists have conducted more than 40 studies about lesbians whose life partner has died.
c. a heterosexual woman whose husband has died is likely to say that her friends make her feel very welcome at social gatherings.
d. the ratio of widows to widowers is fairly constant throughout the world.

Question 2

According to the studies about widowhood and bereavement,

a. women are likely to have more trouble adjusting to widowhood if they had been happily married.
b. there are currently about the same number of widows and widowers in the United States.
c. because of the new research on lesbian relationships, we now have several dozen studies that have examined how lesbian women experience the death of an intimate partner.
d. women show relatively little variability in their bereavement experiences following the death of a spouse.