Chapter 1 Quiz

A  Norms

B  Taboos

C  Accommodations

D  Roles

A  passing a new adoption law

B  creating a poverty line

C  controlling substance abuse

D  improving housing facilities

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

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

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

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

A  family values

B  popular culture

C  social movements

D  religious beliefs

A  pillar

B  traditional

C  caregiver

D  sandwich

A  nuclear-level

B  global-level

C  macro-level

D  micro-level

A  patriarchal

B  nuclear

C  neolocal

D  matriarchal

A  joint family

B  stepfamily

C  nuclear family

D  extended family

A  extended system

B  nuclear system

C  neolocal system

D  kinship system

A  Nuclear-level

B  Cognitive-level

C  Macro-level

D  Micro-level

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

B  It refers to living alone after a divorce.

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

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

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

B  Family problems and divorces are very recent concepts.

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

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

A  is mostly self-sufficient

B  has some health or economic problems to deal with

C  does not have to worry about raising children

D  always provides love, nurturance, and emotional support

A  polygyny

B  endogamy

C  serial monogamy

D  polyandry

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

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

C  Women are marginalized and oppressed in such households.

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

A  nuclear family

B  extended family

C  family of orientation

D  family of procreation

A  Homogamy

B  Bigamy

C  Exogamy

D  Endogamy

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

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

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

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

A  affiant kin

B  nurtured kin

C  consanguineal kin

D  fictive kin