Exam 15: Families

According to the textbook, which of the following is NOT a social force that influences falling in love and subsequent marriage?

What was the sole ground available for divorce with the 1985 amendment to the Canadian Divorce Act?

If people worry that the family is in decline, what type of reform are they most likely to pressure government for?

What happened with regard to fertility in Canada in the late 1950s?

What is the main feature of a foraging society?

In 2009, Winston Blackmore of Bountiful, British Columbia was charged with polygamy. Which of the following would be produced in court as evidence for the charge?

Adam and Ashley have been together as a couple for over two years. They are in love and want to spend their lives together, possibly having children. Compared to couples in the same situation in 1981, which of the following is most likely to be true with respect to their decision to marry or live together in a common-law relationship?

Who spearheaded an abortion reform movement in the 1960s?

Religious couples are less likely to get divorced than non-religious couples.

Discuss the rationale behind the federal government's decision in 2011 to stop the annual calculation of marriage and divorce rates.

According to the research, which of the following children is the most likely to experience significant distress?

What are the social, ethical, and legal issues that accompany reproductive technologies?

Because gender inequality exists in non-capitalist (including pre-capitalist) societies, most feminists believe that something other than, or in addition to, capitalism accounts for gender inequality.

Leslie and Lisa are excited to be going to the clinic so that Leslie can have their gay friend's sperm inserted into her vaginal canal. What is this method of reproduction called?

Reverend John Smith speaks passionately from the pulpit about moral decay, the evils of women neglecting their children, and the decline of the family, beseeching parishioners to teach their children about the urgency of protecting the family as they know it. What kind of family is John Smith almost certainly speaking about?

George Murdock stated that the nuclear family in 250 societies is founded on a "socially approved, long-term sexual and economic relationship between a man and a woman." What was he referring to?

According to functionalists, which family form is ideally suited to raise successive generations of appropriately socialized offspring?

Canadian trends in cohabitation rates indicate that cohabitation is replacing marriage in which of the following provinces?

What is patriarchy?

Canada's Divorce Act was amended in 1985 and it made marital breakdown the only ground for divorce.