Exam 15: Divorce: Before and After

Emerging developmental theories of childhood well-being provided support to a presumption that when divorce occurs, mother custody was always in the child's best interest. This point of view came to be known as the so-called "__________" doctrine.

The high divorce rate implies that Americans are "giving up" on marriage.

In Amato's typology, the __________ perspective assumes that, just as divorce is known to be an emotionally challenging life event for adults, it must also be so for children.

Because mothers retain custody in the preponderance of divorce cases, and because women are economically disadvantaged in employment, fathers are the most likely to

What is the relationship between divorce and income? Be brief, specific, and complete in your answer.

Improvements in unhappy marriages come about for various reasons. Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons cited by sociologist Linda Waite?

A study sponsored by the Justice Department reports that __________ children were abducted by family members in 1999.

__________ refers to kidnapping one's own children from the other parent.

Among low-income couples, a wife's earnings may actually help to hold the marriage together by counteracting the negative effects of poverty and economic insecurity on marital stability. This is known as the __________ effect to women's employment.

Marie lives in Paris, France, and is the custodial parent of her 2-year-old son. Even if her ex-husband fails to pay his court-ordered child support, the government sends Marie the full amount of support awarded to her son. This procedure is referred to in the text as

Most observers conclude that, for the time being, the divorce rate continues to rise dramatically.

Wallerstein found that __________ of the children in her study had experienced a second divorce of one or both parents.

Sociologist William Aquilino analyzed National Survey of Families and Households data from over 3,000 who grew up in intact families from birth to age 18. Aquilino found that even when parents divorce after the child is 18,

Between 1960 and a peak in 1979, the refined divorce rate

List four specific ways in which economics is related to marital stability.

WA consequence of remarriage, which have higher divorce rates than first marriages, is an emerging trend of

In Amato's typology, the __________ perspective holds that financial difficulties brought about by marital dissolution is primarily responsible for the problems faced by children of divorce.

Which of the following options requires spouses to prove fault or live apart for a certain length of time in order to obtain a divorce?

In her investigations of non-custodial mothers, Judith Fisher made several recommendations. Which of the following is NOT one of these?

The text points out that some financially dependent spouses have been awarded short-term spousal support of maintenance in the form of __________.