Chapter 1 Quiz

A  fictive kin

B  affiant kin

C  nurtured kin

D  consanguineal kin

A  Accommodations

B  Roles

C  Taboos

D  Norms

A  improving housing facilities

B  creating a poverty line

C  controlling substance abuse

D  passing a new adoption law

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

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

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

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

A  popular culture

B  religious beliefs

C  family values

D  social movements

A  caregiver

B  sandwich

C  pillar

D  traditional

A  global-level

B  micro-level

C  macro-level

D  nuclear-level

A  neolocal

B  nuclear

C  matriarchal

D  patriarchal

A  stepfamily

B  joint family

C  extended family

D  nuclear family

A  extended system

B  neolocal system

C  kinship system

D  nuclear system

A  Nuclear-level

B  Micro-level

C  Cognitive-level

D  Macro-level

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

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

C  It refers to living alone after a divorce.

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

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

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

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

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

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

D  Family problems and divorces are very recent concepts.

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  serial monogamy

B  polygyny

C  polyandry

D  endogamy

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

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

C  Women are marginalized and oppressed in such households.

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

A  family of orientation

B  extended family

C  family of procreation

D  nuclear family

A  Exogamy

B  Bigamy

C  Homogamy

D  Endogamy

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

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

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

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