Exam 15: Families

The growth of the ________, which involves persons who live alone or with unrelated individuals, is one of the most dramatic changes to occur during the past three decades.

________ of first marriages end in divorce, and the U.S. divorce rate is highest among the western world.

Many find family changes that have been occurring in the last few decades threatening.

What we think of as the family is a/an ________ that implies a private retreat set apart from society but masks the real relationship between families and the larger society.

According to Gelles (1995), the family is a place where people are more likely to be

Describe some of the changes in U.S. households in the last quarter of the twentieth century.

Teenagers

Today, no one household arrangement is typical.

A family is a residence group that carries out domestic functions.

Since 1970, the most significant change in the nation's households has been the virtual disappearance of the nuclear family.

The ________ family view masks the inevitable problems that arise in intimate settings (tension, anger, and even violence in some instances).

The nonfamily household refers to either somebody living alone or with unrelated individuals.

Minorities tend to have higher _______ than whites.