Although Individual Couples Show a Range of Difference in Post-Partum

question 28

Multiple Choice

Although individual couples show a range of difference in post-partum sexual desire and activity, your text discusses a study that appears to have found a variable predicting which couples would be much less likely to be having sexual relations one year after childbirth.What was this predictor variable?

• A)Not being sexually active at the third month of the pregnancy.
• B)Not scoring well on a measure of couples' communication about sexuality.
• C)Not being able to sleep through the night for the child's first year of life.
• D)Not breast feeding.

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