Marriage, Family, And The Law Jacobs Ch.10 Test Bank Docx

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 1

1) Which group of people would meet Talcott Parson’s definition of a “family of procreation”?

Page reference: See section “Family and Society.”

a. Michelle and Barack Obama and their daughters Malia and Sasha

b. Donald Trump, his first wife Ivanna, his second wife Marla Maples, and his third wife, Melania Trump, and his five children born to those women

c. Forty-first American president George W. Bush, his twin daughters Jenna and Barbara, and his daughter’s children

d. Bill Clinton, his mother Virginia, and his father, William Jefferson Clinton Jr., who was killed in a car accident three months before the future president was born

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 2

2) A group of people related by biological, legal, or emotional ties is called a

Feedback Today, Phil Cohen’s more flexible definition of family—a group of people who share biological, legal, or emotional ties—describes what many people think of as their families.

Page reference: See section “Family and Society.”

a. genealogy.

b. marriage.

c. kinship system.

d. family.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 3

3) Kinship systems include the words to describe relatives, the attitudes about different kinds of relatives, and the rules about

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a. money.

b. schooling.

c. marriage.

d. employment.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 4

4) Members of a family can share the daily tasks that are necessary for survival, including cooking, cleaning, and caring for infants. These are a few examples of how a family can provide

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a. legal support.

b. social support.

c. financial support.

d. educational support.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 5

5) Sociology provides a good background for people wanting to become marriage and family therapists because of the emphasis on

Page reference: See Careers box “Marriage and Family Therapists.”

a. social problems and whose fault they are.

b. mental health diagnoses and how the family can fix them.

c. social relationships and social institutions.

d. society and how people deal with society.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 6

6) Recent research shows that highly educated, professionally successful, and high-earning people are _______ than ever to marry one another.

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a. less likely (except for Asian Americans)

b. more likely (except Asian Americans)

c. less likely

d. more likely

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 7

7) This field of study’s main goal is to document how family members are related to each other.

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a. Gastronomy

b. Genealogy

c. Genesiology

d. Geography

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 8

8) When compared to families in the real world, fictional media families are

Page reference: See subsection “Marriage and Family as Social Institutions.”

a. more likely to be racial minorities.

b. as likely to be interracial families.

c. as likely to have same-sex couples.

d. less likely to have single parents.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 9

9) Industrialization placed pressure on the extended family in several ways, including

Page reference: See section “Changes in Marriage and Family.”

a. strengthening the household economy.

b. forcing people to move to rural areas.

c. making people live in larger homes.

d. increasing residential mobility in search of jobs.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 10

10) Recent research shows that conflicts over parenting styles impacts all members of the family and is associated with a

Page reference: See Paired Concept box “Disagreement over Parenting Styles.”

a. lower probability of child abuse and neglect.

b. lower probability of steady employment for parents.

c. higher probability of marital satisfaction.

d. higher probability of marital dissolution.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 11

11) Research clearly shows that parental conflict is associated with poorer

Page reference: See Paired Concept box “Disagreement over Parenting Styles.”

a. employment achievement and increased likelihood of substance abuse for parents.

b. academic achievement and decreased likelihood of substance abuse for parents.

c. academic achievement and increased likelihood of substance abuse for children.

d. academic achievement and decreased likelihood of substance abuse for children.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 12

12) Today, approximately what percentage of married couples get divorced each year in the United States?

Page reference: See section “Changes in Marriage and Family.”

a. 2 percent

b. 4 percent

c. 10 percent

d. 12 percent

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 13

13) Long-term data shows what trend in divorce rates in the United States?

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a. An increase from 1960 to 1980, gradual decline since 1980, with today’s divorce rate still higher than in 1960

b. An increase from 1960 to 1980, gradual decline since 1980, with today’s divorce rate lower than in 1960

c. A decrease from 1960 to 1980, gradual decline since 1980, with today’s divorce rate still higher than in 1960

d. An increase from 1960 to 1980, gradual decline since 1980, with today’s divorce rate lower than in 1960

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 14

14) Approximately what percentage of all children born in the United States today have parents who come from different racial groups?

Page reference: See subsection “Multiracial Families.”

a. 1 percent

b. 3 percent

c. 5 percent

d. 10 percent

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 15

15) The gender revolution in the 1970s in the United States

Page reference: See section “Challenging Family Forms.”

a. had a negative impact on children.

b. saw an awareness raised around women’s traditional roles as caregivers and contemporary roles as workers.

c. saw men doing more of the housework than women.

d. had no impact on the ways a family organizes paid and unpaid work.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 16

16) Which factor has been associated with a reduced likelihood of cohabitation?

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a. Having your first child before your marriage

b. Having your first child within one year of marriage

c. Having no religious beliefs

d. Having extreme religious beliefs

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 17

17) Children of divorced parents tend to have higher

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a. levels of educational success.

b. likelihoods of their own marriages ending in divorce.

c. levels of psychological well-being.

d. likelihoods of ever getting married.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 18

18) What type of custody involves the parents moving in and out of the house during their time of visitation, instead of the children moving?

Page reference: See Paired Concept box “‘Bird-Nesting’ as a Co-Parenting Strategy after Divorce.”

a. “Bird’s nest” custody

b. Joint custody

c. Joint legal custody

d. Joint physical custody

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 19

19) “Bird’s nest” custody is best suited for

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a. a short time period.

b. young children.

c. parents who have a high level of conflict.

d. parents who have significant others.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 20

20) Currently, approximately what percentage of children in the United States live in a single-parent household?

Page reference: See section “Changes in Marriage and Family.”

a. 30 percent

b. 50 percent

c. 75 percent

d. 90 percent

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 21

21) Who is most likely to be a single parent in the United States today?

Page reference: See section “Changes in Marriage and Family.”

a. Wealthy women

b. Wealthy men

c. Women

d. Men

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 22

22) Childhood poverty is strongly associated with families with

Page reference: See section “Changes in Marriage and Family.”

a. two parents.

b. one parent.

c. lesbian or gay parents.

d. heterosexual parents.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 23

23) In December 2014, Prince Albert and Princess Charlene of Monaco had twins, Princess Gabrielle and Prince Jacques. Princess Gabriella was born two minutes before Prince Jacques, but the laws of succession state that Prince Jacques will one day inherit the throne. What term best describes this type of kinship system?

Page reference: See section “Family and Society.”

a. Patriarchal

b. Matriarchal

c. Patrilineal

d. Multilineal

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 24

24) Juanita recently passed away and left her estate to her children, Carlos and Selena, and asked for it to be split equally among them. This is an example of what type of kinship system?

Page reference: See section “Family and Society.”

a. Patriarchal

b. Matriarchal

c. Patrilineal

d. Multilineal

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 25

25) Recent research shows that women living in poor communities often want to get married but feel they should wait to do so until they have financial stability. However, they are often stuck in low-paying jobs with little room for advancement that leads to financial stability. In addition, they tend to view being a mother as the most meaningful thing they can do and the most important source of identity in their lives. Thus, according to research, women living in poor communities tend to

Page reference: See subsection “Single-Parent Families.”

a. have fewer children and have them closer together in age than women living in more rich communities.

b. have fewer children and have them farther apart in age than women living in more rich communities.

c. realize they have a likelihood of financial stability and finding a suitable partner to marry, and thus delay motherhood by more than five years compared to their counterparts living in more rich communities.

d. realize they have a low likelihood of financial stability and finding a suitable partner to marry, thus have children without a suitable partner to marry.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 26

26) Actors Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have several children together: Maddox (who was adopted by Jolie in Cambodia), Zahara (who was adopted by Jolie in Ethiopia), Shiloh (their first child together), Pax (who Jolie adopted from Vietnam), and their biological twins Knox and Vivienne, who were born in France. Pitt legally adopted Maddox and Zahara after being with Jolie for a year. However, when Pitt wanted to co-adopt Pax with Jolie after being together for almost three years, he was denied as Vietnam adoption law does not allow for unmarried couples to co-adopt. This is an example of bias in favor of

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a. marriage.

b. the wealthy.

c. cohabitation.

d. single mothers.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 27

27) Sharon and Tabitha are cohabitating partners who have been together for nine years. Sharon has a spinal cord disability due to a car crash 12 years ago. They have decided to continue cohabitating, instead of getting married, because Sharon receives Social Security Disability benefits and would see a decrease or loss of benefits if she and Tabitha married. This is an example of bias in favor of

Page reference: See section “Family and Society.”

a. lesbian and gay couples.

b. cohabitation.

c. marriage.

d. single mothers.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 28

28) Families encourage us to distinguish between our private family life and the public world that exists outside of our home, providing us with a set of rules that help us to think about how we are related to each other and how we should act in any given social situation. In this way, family is an example of a(n)

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a. society.

b. culture.

c. industry.

d. institution.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 29

29) Young children learn about _______ by watching the different clothes their parents wear, who does the cooking, who does the cleaning, and the different expectations for sons and daughters in the family.

Page reference: See section “Family and Society.”

a. parenting

b. primogeniture

c. sex

d. gender

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 30

30) Trends in cohabitation and marriage show that

Page reference: See section “Changes in Marriage and Family.”

a. cohabitation has decreased since the 1960s.

b. cohabitation is less likely now than in the past to end in marriage.

c. nearly two-thirds of marriages today weren’t preceded by cohabitation.

d. nearly one-third of marriages today end in cohabitation.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 31

31) Who out of the following is most likely to delay marriage?

Page reference: See section “Changes in Marriage and Family.”

a. Yolanda, a single female who is a Harvard professor, has a Ph.D. in chemistry, and makes $180,000 per year.

b. Katie, a single mother who lives in public housing and uses her food stamps and cash assistance to meet most of the needs of herself and her 5-year-old son.

c. Mateo, a male who works the day shift as a technician in a medical laboratory and overnight shift as a security guard at a power plant.

d. Zeke, who teaches math at the local high school and lives with his boyfriend, Josiah.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 32

32) Which of the following groups would meet Talcott Parsons’ definition of “family of origin” for Jessica?

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a. Jessica, her spouse, and their three children

b. Jessica and her spouse only

c. Jessica, her mother, her father, her two older brothers, and her neighbor

d. Jessica, her mother, her father, and her two older brothers

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 33

33) Three important trends in marriage today include: the rise of divorce, the decision by many to delay marriage, and the

Page reference: See section “Changes in Marriage and Family.”

a. growth of transnational families.

b. decline in lesbian and gay marriages.

c. increase in marriage rates.

d. decrease in boomerang kids.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 34

34) The birth rate in the United States has increased the fastest among women

Page reference: See section “Changes in Marriage and Family.”

a. younger than 18.

b. aged 20–25.

c. aged 25–30.

d. aged 35 and older.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 35

35) Today, approximately what percentage of young adults in their 20s and 30s live with their parents?

Page reference: See subsection “Boomerang Kids and Sandwich Parents.”

a. 25 percent

b. 15 percent

c. 10 percent

d. 5 percent

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 36

36) The increasing rate of boomerang kids can be attributed to many factors, including carrying increased student loan debt, the decision to marry later in life than in previous generations, and being

Page reference: See subsection “Boomerang Kids and Sandwich Parents.”

a. unemployed or under-employed.

b. financially able to afford the high cost of housing.

c. able to spend their parents’ money.

d. unwilling to work upon graduation from college.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 37

37) In the United States today, approximately what percentage of all the children under the age of 18 live in immigrant families?

Page reference: See subsection “Transnational Families.”

a. 5 percent

b. 15 percent

c. 25 percent

d. 35 percent

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 38

38) Katerina and Josef immigrated to the United States from Poland, settling in western Pennsylvania. Katerina opened a bakery out of their home and Josef worked in the coal mines. Every few months, Katerina would send money to her younger brother, Ernst, who still lived in Poland. As Katerina and Josef’s children were born and became old enough to work, they entered the coal mines and worked in the local grocery store, continuing to send money back to Uncle Ernst until he had saved enough to immigrate to the United States, as well. The money that Katerina, Josef, and their children sent to Ernst is termed

Page reference: See subsection “Transnational Families.”

a. remittances.

b. money orders.

c. visas.

d. green cards.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 39

39) A form of a transnational family in Korea, where the mother lives with the children in a foreign country while the father stays behind to work, is called

Page reference: See Paired Concept box “Korean ‘Wild Geese’ Families.”

a. oli, or “duck” families.

b. schwan, or “swan” families.

c. kirogi, or “wild geese” families.

d. holub, or “pigeon” families.

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 Question 40

40) In the United States, approximately what percentage of adults live alone?

Page reference: See section “Challenging Family Forms.”

a. 5 percent

b. 10 percent

c. 15 percent

d. 25 percent