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Post by: dundlermuffin on Mar 20, 2018
Research has shown that women who have stable partners and who have partners who have completed at least some college education
 
  a. drink, smoke, and generally exhibit poorer health behavior than single mothers.
  b. are less likely to drink, smoke, and use drugs during pregnancy.
  c. act the same way as women in unstable relationship and have partners with just a high school education.
  d. may be more educated about the health of their fetus, but show no difference in their behavior while pregnant than women with partners who have graduated college.

Question 2

According to political scientist Cynthia Daniels,
 
  a. initiatives such as President Obama's health care policies will have little effect on how men treat their bodies and think about their health.
  b. men receive a disproportionate amount of attention in terms of scientific dollars spent on issues of reproduction and the health of their babies.
  c. there is a disproportionate interest in how bad behavior by women affects reproductive health and not enough interest in how men's behavior negatively contributes to fetal and children's health.
  d. we have finally reached a stage where scientists are considering how men's behavior can affect the health of their children.

Question 3

Which of the following statistics is most accurate when it comes to men's health in American society?
 
  a. One-third of American men are obese and 10 are likely to become alcoholics in their lifetime.
  b. The obesity rates for American men have dropped by 25 in the last decade and men are having heart attacks at a rate that is less than 20 than 30 years ago.
  c. About three-quarters of all American men can be considered obese and 35 will die of heart attacks before the age of 65.
  d. Obesity rates for men have remain stable over the past two decades at about 25 of all men, and only about 5 of men have drinking problems now.

Question 4

According to Marsiglio, when it comes to men's health, research finds that
 
  a. men are exercising more and staying healthy for longer periods of their lifespan.
  b. men are eating healthier foods, staying fit, although their lifespan is still much shorter than women.
  c. men are much less likely to go to the doctor for routine physicals or serious illnesses than are women.
  d. there is no difference in the health patterns between men and women.

Question 5

There has been much written about changing gender roles and the movement toward more egalitarianism in marriage and household work. However, we might have a skewed viewed of this idea because much of this research has been done on which of the following groups?
 
  a. Middle-class, college educated Americans.
  b. Upper-class, privileged people, who represent the 1 of the highest economic echelon in America.
  c. Poor, indigent people of color, who lack a college education and are unskilled laborers.
  d. Working-class couples, with high school education, who work in factories.

Question 6

Which of the following was NOT cited by these authors for why these husbands and wives kept their same gender roles in the home, even when their husbands were laid off?
 
  a. The lack of well-paying jobs for women that would allow them to replace their husband's loss of income.
  b. The reinforcement of traditional gender ideologies that continued to see women's work as secondary to the husband's.
  c. The education level of these respondents, where most of them had gone to college and wanted careers that would be fulfilling outside the home, while still maintaining traditional gender roles in the home.
  d. The lack of new ideologies that would support men's equal participation in household labor.

Question 7

One of the reasons they authors mention as why these women did not renegotiate household work after their husbands were laid off and they continued to work was
 
  a. they feared that their husbands would become violent and belligerent if they insisted on changes in household labor.
  b. they actually enjoyed household work, and even though they were now working outside the home, they did not want to relinquish these duties.
  c. they felt strongly that woman's work was still in the home, and wanted to serve as role models for their daughters as good homemakers.
  d. they were seriously worried about the mental health of their husbands.


Title: Research has shown that women who have stable partners and who have partners who have completed at ...
Post by: houghtk2 on Mar 20, 2018
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Title: Research has shown that women who have stable partners and who have partners who have completed at ...
Post by: dundlermuffin on Mar 20, 2018
Excellent answers


Title: Research has shown that women who have stable partners and who have partners who have completed at ...
Post by: houghtk2 on Mar 20, 2018
Thank you