Title: (Sensitive) Analyze factors influencing date or mate selection.
Course: Life Planning (19257-18) > Section: Creating and Maintaining Healthy Relationships

Analysis should include

- the most desirable qualities in a date or mate
- the impact of similar or different values, beliefs, and attitudes
- the value of similar or different educational, social, economic, and cultural backgrounds.

Process/Skill Questions:

Thinking

- What are the most important qualities in a partner from your personal point of view?
- Do you think your parents or other family members would share this view? Why or why not?
- How might your list of the most important qualities in a partner change as you get older?
- What values, beliefs, or ethical standards are most important to you?
- What may happen if you wish to form a relationship with a person who has different values, beliefs, or standards?
- How does mate selection occur in different cultures? How do your partner’s friends and family affect your relationship?

Communication

- How do good communication skills enhance the ability to choose a suitable partner?
- What communication skills are especially important in developing and maintaining a relationship with a potential partner?
- How do you communicate your values, beliefs, and standards to others?

Leadership

- What leadership skills can help you evaluate factors related to choosing a partner?
- What leadership skills can help you understand diverse perspectives?
- How can leadership skills help you set goals related to choosing a partner and forming a family?

Management

- What resources are available to help you understand the perspectives, needs, and characteristics of others?
- What is the impact of our ethical standards on our choice of a partner?