Exam 11: Work and Family

Policy researchers define __________ as the full-time care and education of children under age six, care before and after school and during school vacations for older children, and overnight care when employed parents must travel.

In the __________ approach, family care is shared by both the mother and the father.

In 2008, __________ percent of all employed women are office or service workers.

__________ involves the necessary tasks of attending both the emotional needs of all family members and the practical needs of dependent members, as well as maintaining the family domicile.

In 2009, almost ____________ of mothers of children under fifteen in married-couple families were stay-at-home mothers, wives of steadily employed men, who were temporarily out of the labor force for the entire year to "take care of home and family."

__________ work involves the necessary tasks of attending both the emotional needs of all family members and the practical needs of dependent members, as well as maintaining the family domicile.

Working for pay-in contrast to unpaid labor in the home-is sometimes called __________.

A little over __________ of all employees now work more than 40 hours per week.

Psychologist Jay Belsky reported that infants in their first year who are in non-parental care for twenty or more hours per week are at elevated risk of

The provider role (and its counterpart, the housewife role) lasted into the __________.

What is the "leisure gap?"

Jane is an insurance executive and lives in San Francisco. Her husband, Don, is an attorney who practices law in New York City. On the weekends, Jane may travel to New York, or Don to San Francisco so that they can be together. Jane and Don's arrangement is most specifically referred to as

According to Hochschild, a fairly common __________ is to develop family myths- "versions of reality that obscure a core truth in order to manage a family tension."

An estimated __________ Americans are taking care of their aging parents.

University of Michigan researchers cited in the text use the term "_________" in noting that, as men and women are both putting in more hours of employment, the total amount of time a couple spends on housework has declined.

There are essentially three types of nonrelative child care. Which of the following is NOT one of these?

__________ are men who stay home to care for the house and family while their wives work.

The American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Public Health Association have established guidelines that describe quality child care as having certain features. Which of the following is NOT one of these?

The vast majority of two-paycheck marriages can be classified as dual-career.

The pronounced tendency for men and women to be employed in different types of jobs is termed __________.