The total number of stressor events that a family must contend with at any point in time is
a. referred to as a pile-up of stressor events
b. unrelated to the coping efforts employed within a family
c. has nothing to do with the degree of distress experienced within a family
d. usually limited; that is families usually get to deal with one event at a time.
Ques. 2Gerson (cited by Aulette) interviewed men about negotiating the new terrain of work, family and gender and grouped these men into general categories including all EXCEPT:
a. Men who reflect a stalled revolution, who took their breadwinning role very seriously, and expected it to be translated into authority in the home.
b. Men who chose autonomy over parenthood, including rebels who did not have children, and estranged fathers who were not close with their children.
c. Involved fathers, who work to become more integrated into the work of family life, especially the work of raising children.
d. New age traditionals, who claimed egalitarian values but whose behavior reflected traditional roles.
Ques. 3In medieval society (emerging in the 13th century) love was
a. an emotional but not necessarily a sexual relationship.
b. a sexual but not an emotional relationship.
c. an emotional relationship first that became a sexual relationship with marriage.
d. a sexual relationship first with marriage that became an emotional relationship after the marriage.
Ques. 4Which form of family organization became dominant among African American sharecroppers after the Civil War?
a. Extended-family households.
b. Nuclear families.
c. Transitional cohabitation.
d. Single-parent families.
Ques. 5Research cited by Aulette indicated that when women start to work outside the home,
a. children are more likely than husbands to do some of the chores previously done by women.
b. husbands are more likely than children to do some of the chores previously done by women.
c. neither husbands nor children do some of the chores previously done by women. It simply does not get done.
d. husbands and children do an approximately equal amount of the work previously done by the women.