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Article: Adolescents' perception of the ideal mate: its relationship to parental characteristics in intact and nonintact families.
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- Adolescence
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- June 22, 2004
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There are two major theoretical approaches to the issue of mate selection. One focuses on the similarity between partners, the other on the similarity between one's opposite-sex parent and one's selection of a partner. Most investigations of mate selection have followed the first approach. That is, they have examined whether people choose prospective marriage partners because of similarity or dissimilarity to themselves in regard to a variety of physical, social, and psychological variables. Fewer studies (e.g., Geher, 1997, 2000; Wilson & Barrett, 1987; Jedlicka, 1980, 1984) have followed the second approach, testing the template-matching hypothesis (see Daly & Wilson, ...