Exam 2: U.S Families: Historical Origins, Changes, and Contemporary Issues

How does marital status differ by sex or gender and age? Explain.

Children were more likely to experience family disruptions through loss and addition of adult family members in the past than they are today.

A __________ consists of all persons who occupy a housing unit.

Women 55 and older are much more likely than their male counterparts to be either widowed or divorced.

Liberal welfare regimes focus their attention on the family as a provider of support, but attempt to equalize support across families through income redistributive tax policies and supplements for needed supports such as child care.

The increased availability of ___________ poses new problems for parents in supervising and monitoring their children's exposure to inappropriate information and values counter to those of their family system.

As of 2007, more than 25 percent of both women and men age 25-44 were divorced.

Increases in the labor force participation of women since WWII can be attributed to:

How does a sacred view of the permanence of marriage differ from other views? Discuss the pros and cons of each view.

Many traditional family functions are now performed by other agencies.

State and/or federal governments only provide support to families; they do not regulate families.

Families were mostly __________ in Western Europe and the American colonies.

The census considers families and households to be identical if households consist of more than one person.

An emergent norm concerning family organization suggests that

In 2006, the median family income for Americans was:

Consumers of mass media are rarely influenced by the images that are presented.

Differences between particular religious groups such as Protestants or Catholics are more pronounced than differences between churchgoers and non-churchgoers.

The average size of households in the United States has decreased over the past 100 years.

The mass media, particularly television, tends to reinforce gender stereotypes.

Family scholars point to popular television programs of the 1950s such as "Leave it to Beaver" and others as accurate portrayals of family life for most Americans at that time.