Sociologist Judith Stacey identifies the postmodern family as a family form that includes the intact nuclear household composed of a male breadwinner, his full-time homemaker wife, and their dependent children.
a. true
b. false
Question 2There are divorce-extended families that include ex-spouses and their lovers, children (often adults), and friends; households now expand and contract as adult children leave and then return home, only to leave again.
a. true
b. false
Question 3The changing form of the family is a major consequence of the changes in gender roles and preferences associated with the current period.
a. true
b. false
Question 4Some downwardly mobile middle-class families end up in poverty, but most come to rest at a standard of living above the poverty level but far below the affluence they enjoyed in the past.
a. true
b. false
Question 5The structural transformations that have occurred in the economy have been most profound for the corporate class, which has been the hardest hit by the economic transformation.
a. true
b. false
Question 6The most noticeable trend is the decline in the proportion of married-couple households with children.
a. true
b. false
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