Exam 18: Families

Looking ahead fifty years, predict the state of the U.S. family. As you see it, how will families differ from how they are today? In what ways will they be the same? Consider factors such as the popularity of marriage, the likelihood of divorce, the number of children people will have, gender differences in marriage, and the need for caregiving (especially of the old).

Describing the lives of working-class women, Lillian Rubin reported that the typical woman said she wanted a husband who:

Which of the following are counted among the functions of the family?

Parents and children form an extended family.

Typically, high-income societies make use of which of the following systems to trace ancestry?

Identify at least one important issue involved in each of the following stages in family life: courtship, settling in, child rearing, later life.

Why do more of U.S. households contain a single person?

Provide a distinctive trait or pattern about each of the following: American Indian families, Latino families, African American families, and Asian American families.

One reason for today's high divorce rate in the United States is that women are more economically dependent on men.

In traditional societies, parents may arrange the marriages of their very young children.

Any family is really many families as it changes over time. Consider how families typically change as people move through the life course. What are the major traits of family life beginning with courtship, settling in to marriage, child rearing, and later life? What special opportunities and challenges can you see in each stage?

The concept "homogamy" means that:

A social-exchange analysis of family life is likely to consider:

Polyandry unites one female with two or more males in marriage.

Patterns that describe many Latino families include:

In the United States, the average (median) number of children per family is now about:

Exogamy means that parents of similar social position pass on their standing to their children.

In recent years, same-sex marriage has become legal throughout the United States.

Research shows that growing up in a single-parent family:

In vitro fertilization refers to conception by an unmarried couple.