Chapter 1 Quiz

A  affiant kin

B  consanguineal kin

C  fictive kin

D  nurtured kin

A  Accommodations

B  Norms

C  Taboos

D  Roles

A  improving housing facilities

B  controlling substance abuse

C  creating a poverty line

D  passing a new adoption law

A  Premarital counseling classes and marital skills programs are a waste of time and money as they do not help increase marital success.

B  Federal and state benefits for children born to unmarried low-income mothers should be reduced.

C  Women should be more than just homemakers for a marriage to be successful.

D  Cohabiting couples can have happier family lives than married couples.

A  social movements

B  religious beliefs

C  popular culture

D  family values

A  traditional

B  caregiver

C  sandwich

D  pillar

A  micro-level

B  global-level

C  nuclear-level

D  macro-level

A  patriarchal

B  matriarchal

C  nuclear

D  neolocal

A  extended family

B  joint family

C  nuclear family

D  stepfamily

A  kinship system

B  neolocal system

C  extended system

D  nuclear system

A  Macro-level

B  Micro-level

C  Cognitive-level

D  Nuclear-level

A  It refers to the departure of grown children from the home.

B  It refers to the rise of one-parent families.

C  It refers to living alone after a divorce.

D  It refers to households where couples cannot biologically have children.

A  In the past, many people stayed in unhappy marriages because of strong social norms and legal divorce obstacles.

B  Recent data show that fewer adults are married and more are divorced or remaining single.

C  In the past, many white, middle-class families enjoyed a life that was both gentle and genteel.

D  Studies show that there has been a decrease in multigenerational relationships in families.

A  There is nothing wrong is spending money on therapists, lawyers, and expert witnesses in cases of marital conflicts.

B  Family problems and divorces are very recent concepts.

C  Gender roles are so different now compared to the past and the family has been resilient despite this.

D  Marriage should exist for the sake of children and not just adults.

A  always provides love, nurturance, and emotional support

B  has some health or economic problems to deal with

C  is mostly self-sufficient

D  does not have to worry about raising children

A  polygyny

B  serial monogamy

C  polyandry

D  endogamy

A  Important family decisions are taken by the eldest woman in the household.

B  Women are marginalized and oppressed in such households.

C  Both spouses share equal duties and responsibilities in such households.

D  Important family decisions are taken by the eldest man in the household.

A  nuclear family

B  family of procreation

C  family of orientation

D  extended family

A  Exogamy

B  Bigamy

C  Homogamy

D  Endogamy

A  Unlike current definitions of the family, traditional definitions include diverse groups such as foster parents and their charges.

B  Unlike current definitions of the family, traditional definitions encompass fictive kin.

C  Unlike traditional definitions of the family, current definitions do not explicitly include marriage and procreation.

D  Unlike traditional definitions of the family, current definitions exclude child-free couples.