Soc Marriage and Family

which is NOT one of four reasons scholars aegue that we neeed to re-evaluate care work

the decline of breadwiner homemaker couples reveals the extend of unpaid labor in families

Which statements best describe the type of leave mandated by the family and medical leave act of 1993

12 weeks of unpaid leave in firms of more than 50 employees

According to estimates about ____% ti cikkege students will never hook up

25%

Coontz argues that they reason "why gender equality stalled" in US because ____

A structural impediments prevent women and men from acting on their values

The U.S Supreme Court cases of Griswald V Connecticut & Eisentadt V Baird helped to define sexuality as a private matter. Both of these cases dealt with _____

Access to contraception

Out of home childcare research suggests that children who have spent more time in childcare show a slight increase in ______ behavior

Aggressive and disobiedient

Single parent families are least common among among which racial/ethnic group

Asian American

____ and _____ are highly valued spousal qualities in individualized marriages

Communication, understanding

Several factors related to the increasing population density and youth populations of cities in the late 19th century undermined the American Courtship system. Which of the following is best explanation for its demise?

Courtship rules were ill-suited to many suitors.

The rise of dating brought many changes to the process by which people met potential marital partners. which of the following was not one of those changes discussed

Dating was more clearly and quickly linked to marriage than twas true to the courtship system

Cherlin and Furstenberg there are three types of grandparents. Which of the following is not one of the grandparent types that they identified?

Detached

Baumrind identifies several basic qualities or dimensions of parenting including _____

Disciplinary strategies Warmth and love

Overall the research on fathering suggests that _____

Fathers involvement is correlated with positive development in both sons and daughters

People in their late 20's and early 30s are using the internet to find a long term partner. Despite the new technology as discussed in lecture, which of the following still apply in dating?

First contact should be brief and generic to establish interest Younger adults look for signs of success that indicate good marrige material Men try to make connections to more attractive partners

According to research discussed in Ch 10 women have greater ambivalent feelings toward their parents then men because ____

Grandparents often are called upon for help with childcare They have less time to take care of them because of employment

NOT contribute to the demise of traditional courtship patterns in US

Growth in passionate love as a basis for marriage

Women, rahter than men, overwhelmingly make adjustments to resolve work/family conflict. As a consquence of this, as noted in lecture women are more often _____

Have less adult-centered lesuire time Lower expectations of house work Scale back work Work part time

Kimmel chronicles the phenomenon of "hooking up" on college campuses. Which of the following statements best captures Kimmels finding?

Hooking up is in some ways a new dating or courtship system. Where men and women seek out information that they will use to pursue a commited relationship eventually.

Strongest predictor of how often grandparents see their grandchildren is

How far apart they live

Boys raised by ___ exhibit more androgynous charactertistics

IDK

Daddy and Papa chronicled the lives of several sets of gay men as the adjusted to being parents. One issue was

Legal barriers to adoption

Compared to women with less educaton and lower earnings, the specialized model predicts that women with more education and higher earning are ______ likely to marry while the income- pooling model predicts they are ____ likely to marry

Less, more.

Heterosexual and gay couples that are carrying on cohabition or marriage like relationships across seperate households are challenging the household-based idea if family. Concept becomes known as ____

Living Apart together

Using longitudinal time-diary and survey date, Yavorsky et al examined the how the transitions to parenthood affected the divison of paid and unpaid labor in dual-earner couples. They found that new mothers did the majority of childcare

New fathers overestimated the amount of unpaid they did to a greater degree than did new mothers

As discussed on Juggling work and family, the practice of duty week reveals the difficulty of implementing responsive policies for _____ workers

On-call and services

With the decline of courtship and the rise of dating, as discussed in lecture, control over the process of mate choice shifted from ____ to ______

Parents and peers Church to community

Children raised under a ___ parenting style have problems with authority, perfrm poorly in school, and have higher rates of alc & drug abuse in early adulthood

Permissive

the institutional marriage is marked predminately by

Strict roles dictating how one s to behave in the family

According to research by Sprecher discussed in lecture, when people meet for the first time which results in failure

Text message

Middle class grandparents provide very little instrumental assistance to their children and grandchildren unless there is a crisis in the childs life. The phenomenon has been described as ___

The family national guard

Parents might provide down payment assistance to an adult child in exchange for caregiving when they are older in order to reconcile which two norms of family support

The norm of reciprocity

Parents who make few demans, are not responsive to childrens needs, and comunicate poorly with their children are exhibiting a ____ parenting style

Uninvolved

As discussed in lecture and ch. 7 Courtship is ____

Was a publicly visible process with defined rules and restrictions

White middle class in iowa who were under economic pressure, elder and Conger found that fathers

Were more irritable and hostile to their wives and kids

recent pew research center study, ____ working fathers say that "even though it takes me away from my family, I want to keep working"

about half of

1960 number of sexual partners that men and women in the US report having had by the age of thirty has ____

become almost the same

We know that parents influece on spousal choice of children _____ when children have ways of manking an independent living

declines

Mid 1990s changing sexual scripts have signaled that sexual behavior no longer necessarily implies

emotional intimacy

US workers most desure in their attempts to accomodate wrk and family demands is

flextime

NOT factor in the increased importance placed on love, shared partnership and sexual fullfillment in marriage in other largely developing countries

gender inequality

Over the past 50 years the % of grandchildren living with grandparents has _____

increased

US is one of the only 8 countries with known policies that do not have national requirment of

paid maternity leave

Marriage might be associated with good health bc mentally and physcally healthier people are more likely to get and stay married. This statment suggests ____ marriage.

postive selection into

Multiple partner fertility (MPF) has increased cohibition has become more common. MPF most prevalent among all of the following groups except mothers who ___________

resides in rural areas

Working parents with children in daycare tend to ______

sacrifice more of their own free time to spend extra hours with their children

______ is "Principal that whenever individuals sort... themselves into groups nonrandomly some of the differences among the groups reflects pre-existing differences among the individuals

selection effect

couples where husband works a night schedule are ____ times more likely to divorswe than are couples where the husband works a day schedule

six

Womens paid work is necessary to meet family needs, economy assumes that children live with a stay at home parents. These institutions have not changed in response to the new reality of dual-earner couples is evidene of

structrual lag

Suggests about half of the lower well-being and disadvantaged among children raised in single parent families is due to ______

their lower income and declines in incomes following divorce

Most common generation linkage of kin in the US is ______ generations

three