Exam 9: Families

Because about 80 percent of women who are mothers of school-aged children are in the work force, the traditional nuclear family is the family type of a very small minority of Canadian families.

Mary and Steve are married and have children. She does domestic work in their home while he works at an office. Which of the following types of family are they?

What term is commonly used to identify parents who do not provide child support after a divorce?

Explain why divorce affects the economic well-being of men and women differently.

Explain the relationship between stigma and the post-divorce well-being of women and children.

Outline the factors that have enabled women to have reproductive choice.

Compared to couples at the top end of the socioeconomic levels of Canadian society, couples belonging to a lower social class are more likely to do which of the following?

According to the text, child poverty has been found to be associated with which of the following?

In the past, solo parenting was most often the result of a spouse's death. Today, solo parenting occurs more frequently because of separation and divorce.

In some couples, one partner has a need to control the other making violent attacks likely, frequent, and severe. What do sociologists call this kind of conjugal violence?

Typically, couples who choose not to have children do so because they are at the lower end of the socioeconomic spectrum.

When can divorce provide a benefit for children?

Explain the relationship between women's autonomy and marital satisfaction.

In eighteenth-century England, the idea that love should be an important factor in choosing a marriage partner first gained credibility. Which of the following accounts for this new understanding of marriage?

Which of the following groups first put forth the idea that power differences in the relationship between men and women explain the development of diverse family forms?

Sandy and Lester were debating the functionalist account of marriage. Lester held that sexual relations outside the marriage undermined its role in regulating sexual reproduction. Sandy, referring to Murdock's research on preliterate societies, disagreed. Which of the following reasons support Sandy?

Trends in divorce, marriage, and child-bearing show a gradual weakening of the nuclear family that began in the second half of the nineteenth century.

According to some analysts discussed in the textbook, which of the following is needed to decrease non-payment of child support?

Whenever the divorce rate spikes or there is rapid social change, concerns about the decline of the social institution of the family are raised.

In Canada since amendments to the Divorce Act 1985, men take an even less active part in household chores.