Forbearance provides the borrower time to repay delinquent mortgage sums. This is advantageous to the struggling borrower, and offering forbearance benefits the loan owner, which frequently loses money on a foreclosure after paying the fees associated with the process.
THE DOMAIN OF RITUAL BEHAVIOR. The term ritual refers to an extensive and diverse domain of human behavior. At one end of a conceptual continuum, a ritual is a public, elaborate, and often largescale religious, aesthetic or civic ceremony.
Atypical Behavior: behavior that deviates from the norms of society -- behavior seen as being different or weird  not necessarily harmful to self or others, just deviant  the definition most people in society use to define a behavior as being abnormal -- referred to in the textbook as 'deviance'.