Exam 11: Families and Intimate Relationships.

In 2004, approximately __________ percent of employed mothers with children under age 6 worked full-time.

The __________ is the subdiscipline of sociology that attempts to describe and explain patterns of family life and variations in family structure.

The most prevalent form of polygamy is __________.

Bubba married his high school sweetheart and they have been faithful to each other for 30 years. Their marriage is considered to be __________.

Define divorce and, from both a macrolevel and microlevel, explain the major causes of divorce in the United States.

A comparison of Census Bureau data from 1970 and 2003 shows that there has been a significant increase in the percentage of U.S. households comprising a married couple with their own children under eighteen years of age.

Foster care refers to institutional settings or residences where adults other than a child's own parents or biological relatives serve as caregivers. About 60 percent of children in foster care are children of color, with about 42 percent of them being African American.

At the fertility clinic in India where women are professional surrogates, it is the requirement that the surrogate

Which statement below is false?

In postindustrial societies, the primary form of social organization is through kinship ties-which refer to a social network of people based on common ancestry, marriage, or adoption.

Both legal and blood ties are found in the __________. The relationship between a husband and wife is based on legal ties; however, the relationship between a parent and child may be based on either blood ties or legal ties, depending on whether the child has been adopted.

Regarding kinship, which of the following statements is false?

Teenage pregnancies are a popular topic in the media and political discourse. The children's Defense Fund estimates that among those who first gave birth between the ages of 15 and 19, __________ percent will have a second child within 3 years.

Kinship in industrial societies is usually traced through both parents (bilineally). The most common form is __________, which is a system of tracing descent through both the mother's and father's sides of the family.

If a couple in the U.S. cannot have a child on their own they may hire a(n) __________.

Summarize families from a global perspective.

Adoption is a legal process through which the rights and duties of parenting are transferred from a child's biological parents and/or legal parents to new legal parents. According to the text's discussion of adoption __________.

__________ is the concurrent marriage of one man with two or more women.

Sociologist Arlie Hochschild coined the term __________ to refer to the work that many employed women perform after they complete their workday on the job.

A recent study of 11,000 women found that there was a 70 percent marriage rate for women who remained in a cohabiting relationship for at least 5 years. However, of the women in that study who cohabited and then married their partner, __________ became divorced within a 10-year period.