Chapter 1 Quiz

A  Roles

B  Taboos

C  Accommodations

D  Norms

A  improving housing facilities

B  controlling substance abuse

C  creating a poverty line

D  passing a new adoption law

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

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

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

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

A  social movements

B  family values

C  popular culture

D  religious beliefs

A  pillar

B  sandwich

C  caregiver

D  traditional

A  global-level

B  micro-level

C  nuclear-level

D  macro-level

A  matriarchal

B  patriarchal

C  nuclear

D  neolocal

A  nuclear family

B  joint family

C  stepfamily

D  extended family

A  nuclear system

B  neolocal system

C  extended system

D  kinship system

A  Macro-level

B  Nuclear-level

C  Micro-level

D  Cognitive-level

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

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

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

D  It refers to living alone after a divorce.

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

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

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

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

A  Family problems and divorces are very recent concepts.

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

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

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

A  does not have to worry about raising children

B  has some health or economic problems to deal with

C  always provides love, nurturance, and emotional support

D  is mostly self-sufficient

A  polyandry

B  polygyny

C  serial monogamy

D  endogamy

A  Women are marginalized and oppressed in such households.

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

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

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

A  family of orientation

B  extended family

C  family of procreation

D  nuclear family

A  Exogamy

B  Endogamy

C  Bigamy

D  Homogamy

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

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

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

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

A  nurtured kin

B  fictive kin

C  affiant kin

D  consanguineal kin