Exam 15: Families

Discuss the predictions about the future of the American family and the basis for making these predictions.

The breadwinner-homemaker pattern never applied to immigrants and racial minorities because ________.

A family is a ________, whereas a household is a ________ .

Teenagers are a very significant category in U.S. society because

Many of the ________ about families are bound up with nostalgia, selective perception, and cultural values concerning what is correct, typical, and true about families.

The ________ has emerged as a new family form because economic uncertainty and domestic upheavals required innovative ways to cope.

Research comparing 1990 with 1999 finds that children's well-being across the nation is improving.

Discuss the relationship between the economy and family patterns and the important ways U.S. households have changed in the current era.

The decline in two-parent households with children reflects ________.

Two-parent households with children _______ from _____ to 22% for households between 1970 and 2009.

The poor have many social linkages that are often national in scope; they have ties to multiple social services agencies and social justice advocates, and their lives exist within the larger context of a network of families.

________ households are individuals who live alone.

An important theme in the marriage movement is

In a(n) ________ society, family structures differ because households vary systematically in their ability to hook into, accumulate, and transmit wealth, wages, or welfare.

Industrialization has moved the center of ________ from the domestic unit to the workplace and families have become private domestic retreats, particularly for men.

The way families are ________ encourages conflict and violence.

The fact that men and women experience marriage differently challenges the myth of the unified family experience.

Historian Stephanie Coontz has studied the U.S. family and found that

The myth of a ________ family experience assumes that all family members experience family life in the same way.

________, as Katherine Newman describes the effect of job loss, often involves stigma, embarrassment, and guilt, and often leads to stress and depression .