Exam 18: Families

Looking ahead twenty years in the United States, we can predict with confidence that:

Jessie Bernard claimed that marriage:

Assume you were visiting a society in which people traced family ties only through women. This society would correctly be called:

David Popenoe's research suggests that the weakest families on Earth may be found in:

Endogamy refers to the pattern of people marrying partners socially like themselves.

Define patrilocality, matrilocality, and neolocality. Which pattern is favored in the United States? Why?

Compared to what it was a century ago, the U.S. divorce rate is now:

Kinship is based on common ancestry, marriage, or adoption.

Feminist analysis links the operation of the family to patriarchy.

Four out of five people in the United States who divorce remarry at some point.

In the United States, family violence is:

The dominant residential form in the United States is neolocality.

Around the world, most marriages have been polygamous.

The most difficult transition in married life is typically:

What is family violence? What laws have been enacted in order to address this problem?

Based on the text, which of the following categories of people would you expect to have the highest risk of divorce?

Matrilineal descent is typically found in which type of societies?

Mounting research suggests that cohabitation:

How does the nuclear family differ from the extended family?

The trend in the United States is toward more racially mixed marriages.