Question 1

In a short paragraph,describe the symbolic interactionist approach to the study of the family.Use the studies mentioned in the textbook to illustrate your points.Discuss the approach's weakness and potential blind spots when it comes to studying the family.

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Question 2

A form of marriage in which each married partner is allowed only one spouse at any given time is called

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A)  monogamy. 
B)  polygamy. 
C)  polygyny. 
D)  polyandry.

Question 3

Which of the following statements best represents a feminist understanding of the family?

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A)  Men continue to bear the main responsibility for domestic tasks. 
B)  The best way to structure a family is to have one parent responsible for the nurturing duties and another responsible for providing for the family economically. 
C)  Women invest large amounts of emotional labor in maintaining personal relationships. 
D)  Jobs that involve caring,such as child-care worker,nanny,or elderly companion,are among the highest paid of all occupations.

Question 4

What is the relationship between living standards and postdivorce situations?

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A)  Both men's and women's living standards tend to increase in the first year following the divorce settlement. 
B)  Men's living standards tend to decrease,while women's living standards tend to increase in the first year following the divorce settlement. 
C)  Men who were contributing more than 80 percent to family income prior to divorce tend to experience an improvement in their living standards after divorce. 
D)  Men who were contributing less than 80 percent to family income prior to divorce tend to experience an improvement in their living standards after divorce.

Question 5

Which of the following is a change related to the creation of a worldwide movement toward the predominance of the nuclear family and the breakdown of extended-family systems and other types of kinship groups?

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A)  the spread of the idea of romantic love 
B)  the power and influence of the antiabortion movement 
C)  large-scale migration from urban to rural areas 
D)  the development of autonomous local governments in areas previously controlled by centralized governments

Question 6

In what year did the Supreme Court guarantee the right to marriage for all,including same-sex couples?

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A)  1968 
B)  1984 
C)  2001 
D)  2015

Question 7

Which theoretical perspective is most likely to agree with the following statement: "Contemporary couples are seeking to be more symmetrical,but in reality men do not perform their share of the housework."

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A)  functionalism 
B)  postmodernism 
C)  feminism 
D)  symbolic interactionism

Question 8

Which of the following is a finding from the research of Judith Wallerstein and colleagues on children of divorced parents?

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A)  Few children experienced intense emotional disturbance at the time of the divorce. 
B)  There was little evidence of short- or long-term deleterious consequences of parental divorce. 
C)  As they entered adulthood,almost all were optimistic,high achieving,and confident. 
D)  Ten or fifteen years later,nearly half the then-young-adult children reported difficulties in their romantic relationships,compromised self-esteem,and a sense of underachievement.

Question 9

A family in which at least one partner has children from a previous marriage is known as a

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A)  nuclear family. 
B)  stepfamily. 
C)  conventional family. 
D)  extended family.

Question 10

Which of the following statements best describes the changes that are occurring in the family globally?

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A)  Clans and other kin groups are increasing in influence. 
B)  Religious backlash has resulted in more restrictions on sexuality. 
C)  Women's and children's rights are more widely recognized. 
D)  Birth rates are increasing.

Question 11

What does Eric Klinenberg conclude from his research on people who live alone?

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A)  Living alone can be a positive experience for the young and old. 
B)  Living alone is correlated with higher rates of depression and social isolation. 
C)  Living alone has some positive benefits after a relationship break up but is detrimental in the long term. 
D)  Young people who live alone report feeling happy and free to pursue their interests,but old people living alone did not report these experiences.

Question 12

According to Stephanie Coontz,why isn't the colonial family as idyllic as often portrayed?

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A)  Wives were confined to the home. 
B)  Women often felt trapped in their domestic role. 
C)  Divorce rates were high. 
D)  High death rates meant there was a great deal of family instability.

Question 13

Which of the following statements best describes American families in the colonial era?

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A)  Compared with contemporary standards,the average duration of marriages was much longer. 
B)  More than half of all children saw the death of at least one parent by the time they were twenty-one years old. 
C)  The way in which authority was exercised would be considered exceedingly permissive by today's standards. 
D)  The colonial family was peaceful and harmonious,unlike most contemporary families.

Question 14

Recent studies on children of divorce derived from population-based samples find that

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A)  most people with divorced parents have serious mental health problems. 
B)  few children experience an initial period of intense emotional upset after their parents separate. 
C)  most children adjust without serious problems within two years of the separation. 
D)  most children experience some long-term problems as a result of the breakup that may persist into adulthood.

Question 15

Among the Hispanic groups listed below,which is the most prosperous?

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A)  Mexican Americans 
B)  Puerto Rican Americans 
C)  Cuban Americans 
D)  Dominican Americans

Question 16

Nellie was worried about her mother living on her own after she divorced Nellie's father.How might Eric Klinenberg's research help assuage Nellie's fears?

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A)  He found that people living alone actually have more,rather than less,social interaction than their married counterparts. 
B)  Klinenberg's respondents reported higher-than-average IQs,possibly because people who live alone spend more time reading. 
C)  People who live alone reported experiencing moderate anxiety,but that feeling dissipated within one year. 
D)  People who live alone tend to be more financially stable than those who live with someone else.

Question 17

In 2016,a New York family court guaranteed married lesbian couples the right to participate in second-parent adoptions.What does this mean?

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A)  One parent adopts a child and the partner applies to be second or co-parent. 
B)  Adopted children can have two sets of parents: birth parents and adoptive parents. 
C)  Lesbian couples can apply to have a man legally serve as father to their adopted child. 
D)  Children are able to choose if they want one or two adoptive parents,regardless of the parent's sexual orientation.

Question 18

What is the main reason why children raised by one parent do not do as well as children raised by two parents,on average?

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A)  Parents who divorce do not devote enough time and attention to parenting and do a worse job monitoring their children than families with two parents. 
B)  Children suffer irreparable emotional trauma from divorce. 
C)  The drop in economic well-being following a divorce appears to explain the majority of the "effect" of divorce on child outcomes. 
D)  Children face social stigma from classmates,teachers,and kin due to their parents' divorce.

Question 19

One conclusion we can draw from recent research on online dating is that

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A)  black women receive the most initial messages. 
B)  white men receive the fewest initial messages. 
C)  users tend to show the greatest interest in those of their same ethnic background. 
D)  hypergamy is more typical of men than women.

Question 20

What might be one reason why researchers have difficulty calculating the rate of childlessness?

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A)  Blended families make it more difficult to discern who is a parent and who isn't. 
B)  People whose children have grown into adults sometimes consider themselves childless,which may inaccurately alter statistics. 
C)  Childlessness is highly stigmatized,so people are likely to misreport their status to survey researchers. 
D)  Women are having their first child at an older average age,making it difficult to decide at what point someone is childless.

Exam 11: Families and Intimate Relationships