Chapter 11 Exam

A  Disturbed by high divorce rates, some young couples delay parenthood until they feel confident that their marriage will work.

B  Many young adults are delaying marriage and having children because they have high college and credit card debts.

C  Daunting jobs and careers make it more difficult to meet prospective mates.

D  A number of national studies show that the higher a woman’s education level, the more likely she is to delay childbearing.

A  Advances in reproductive technology have reduced many women’s concerns about their biological clock and finding a mate.

B  Women who enjoy their jobs and need money to boost their household income are often reluctant to take on balancing child rearing and paid work.

C  Daunting jobs and careers make it more difficult to meet prospective.

D  Attitudes about the “ideal” family size have changed, resulting in less pressure to have more than two children.

A  planner

B  ambivalent

C  acceptance-of-fate

D  yes-no

A  the rise in divorce rates across all populations of the country

B  the lack of a national child care program

C  the difficulty in finding a suitable job to sustain a family

D  the fear of being a single, working mom

A  the adopted child has no contact with the biological parents and little, if any, information about them

B  birth parents are allowed to develop a relationship with the child as she or he grows

C  the adopted child is co-parented by the adoptive parents and the birth parents

D  communication between the adoptee and the adoptive and biological parents takes place only through a third party

A  postnatal operation

B  water birth

C  caesarean section

D  surrogate surgery

A  biologically childless

B  voluntarily childless

C  temporarily childless

D  reluctantly childless

A  closed

B  open

C  semi-open

D  mediated

A  Typically, the responsibility for a baby’s care tends to fall heavily on new fathers, they are more likely than mothers to experience marital dissatisfaction

B  Fatherhood has found to enhance the sense of maturity and responsibility in most men.

C  Bonding between the mother and the newborn has always been found to be more endearing and instant than between the father and the newborn.

D  Between four and ten percent of fathers are found to have postpartum depression symptoms in the first year of their children’s birth.

A  There has been an increase in the rates of unintended childbearing in the African American population.

B  The African American population has the lowest rates of abortion.

C  There has been an increase in the number of married couples in the African American population.

D  The effect of marriage squeeze is found to be lowest in the African American population.

A  frequent backaches

B  movement of the fetus

C  awkwardness and clumsiness

D  frequent nausea, heartburn, and insomnia

A  Adoptive parents have a greater sense of control in semi-open adoptions when compared to open adoptions.

B  Adoptive parents are safe from the interference or co-parenting by birth parents in open adoptions when compared to semi-open adoptions.

C  Adopted children are safe from unstable or emotionally disturbed birth parents in open adoptions when compared to semi-open adoptions.

D  Adopted children are less likely to experience identity confusion in semi-open adoptions when compared to open adoptions.

A  zygote

B  fetus

C  embryo

D  egg cell

A  require a third-person to act as surrogate to the pregnancy

B  involve removing eggs from a woman’s ovaries, fertilizing them in a petri dish

C  are more likely to produce preterm, multiple births

D  help identify any possible genetic disease that fetus may be carrying

A  Forty percent of adopted children in the United States are of a different race, ethnicity, or culture than their adoptive parent/parents.

B  Studies have shown that adopted children are more likely to be physically abused by their adoptive parents.

C  Adopted children comprise 50 percent of the U.S. child population.

D  The Multiethnic Placement Act (MEPA) requires that all transracial adoption be open adoptions.

A  18th week of pregnancy

B  first trimester

C  third trimester

D  24th week of pregnancy

A  gonorrhea

B  pelvic inflammatory disease

C  chlamydia

D  endometriosis

A  planner

B  acceptance-of-fate

C  ambivalent

D  yes-no

A  Teenagers account for less than one percent of all nonmarital births.

B  Births to unmarried women are similar across racial-ethnic groups.

C  White women have more nonmarital babies than do other groups.

D  The majority of children born in America are from nonmarital births.

A  Child-rearing costs tend to be more in urban areas that in the rural areas.

B  Most American parents have been found to be overjoyed at the birth of their first baby.

C  The abortion rate in the country has decreased over the past decade.

D  There has been a steep decline in postpartum depression cases in the country.