In 2003, the United States Congress passed the Personal Responsibility, Work, and Family Promotion Act, which was designed to
(a) prevent divorce.
(b) provide minorities with work opportunities.
(c) promote and support healthy marriages and families through a variety of provisions, such as the initiation of family self-sufficiency plans.
(d) grant parental leave.
Ques. 2The cause of a cohabiting relationship that is a trial marriage is
A) convenience.
B) testing.
C) emancipation.
D) Linus blanket.
Ques. 3Among the Japanese samurai warriors, a practice called hari-kiri often followed disgrace in battle. Hari-kiri is described in the text as
(a) structured self-destruction.
(b) a form of mental illness.
(c) ritual suicide.
(d) indicative of a sick society.
Ques. 4The statement If problems are ignored, they will eventually go away is an example of the ________ style of conflict.
A) accommodating
B) parallel
C) compromising
D) competing
Ques. 5According to the text, child abuse
(a) does not occur in upper-class families.
(b) can often be fatal.
(c) is committed by the mentally ill.
(d) is declining.
Ques. 6What difficulties would researchers encounter studying the number of group marriages in the U.S.?
(a) convincing individuals to stop talking about their relationships
(b) getting someone to publish the findings
(c) locating them
(d) establishing the statistical significance of the marriages studied
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