Exam 15: Families

Greater tolerance by religious groups is partly responsible for the increase in the U.S. divorce rate.

The drastic rate of growth in the elderly population is referred to as the "senior boom".

Families headed by a(n) ________ are more likely to live in households that include children.

The myth of the family as a "haven in a heartless world" ________.

Minority single-parent families are disorganized and entangled in a web of pathology.

Discouraging divorce is an important theme in the "marriage movement."

Conflict theory sees family arrangements as being closely related to cultural development.

During the twentieth century, the population of the United States experienced a profound change.

Middle-class whites were able to achieve the stable suburban family through the

Contrast the differing views of families offered by order and conflict theorists.

Some downwardly mobile middle-class families end up in poverty, but most come to rest at a standard of living above the poverty level but far below the affluence they enjoyed in the past.

Middle-class families with husbands (and perhaps wives) in careers have both economic resources and built-in ties to supportive institutions like banks, credit unions, medical facilities, voluntary associations, etc.

The structural transformations that have occurred in the economy have been profound for the ________, who have been the hardest hit by the economic transformation.

Whites were able to achieve the stable suburban family lives that became the ideal against which other families were judged because of their hard work and superior family values.

Describe the changes experienced by working-class families due to the economic forces in the late twentieth century.

Closed class boundaries and open family boundaries characterize the upper class.

Identify four factors that account for the increase in the U.S. divorce rate.

A belief in romantic love serves as the basis for family arrangements in the United States.

Employers assumed that most families included only one primary caretaker, and as a result, few single men received the income intended to support a family.

The rhetoric about ________ argues that family arrangements that differ from the idealized family are the sources of social problems.