Which of the following statements is FALSE about adoptive families?
a. Openly adopted children who maintain contact with their birth mothers are not confused about their parents'
identity.
b. Families can decide together how much contact they want birth parents to have as part of their adoption plan.
c. Open adoption has the best outcomes for children.
d. Adopted and non-adopted children have the same rates of clinical intervention required for severe behavioral
problems.
Which of the following statements about birth mothers is TRUE?
a. Birth mothers are often ignored and feel invisible.
b. The decisions to voluntarily relinquish your child is not hard if it's the right thing to do.
c. Birth mothers do not require counseling and support if it was the right decision.
d. Birth mothers typically choose adoption because they do not love their child.
Nine-week-old Beth was brought to the emergency room of the hospital unresponsive. There were no
obvious injuries on her body. A CAT scan of her head showed bleeding and bruising of the brain. Beth might
be a victim of
a. Munchausen's syndrome by proxy.
b. apnea.
c. lead poisoning.
d. shaken infant syndrome
Referring to the information on home environment in the text, which of the following would NOT
necessarily be a component of a quality home environment for an infant?
a. Caregivers who regularly talk to the infant
b. Toys
c. A play pen to keep the baby in a small, safe area
d. Warm, responsive caregivers
Which of the following statements is FALSE about infants from poor households?
a. Poverty adds stress for the caregiver and makes caring for an infant more difficult.
b. Poor infants are more likely to be placed in foster care.
c. Poverty does not increase the risk for infant abuse; abuse occurs equally across all socio-economic levels.
d. Poor infants have more health problems.
Which of the following statements is TRUE about gender in infants?
a. Boys and girls basically display similar behaviors at birth.
b. Parents respond to their infants more on the basis of temperament and very little on the basis of gender.
c. Children do not show toy preferences based on their gender until they go to preschool and are exposed to
peers.
d. Children tend to label themselves as boys or girls when they are 2.5 - 3 years old.
Which of the following statements is FALSE about minority infants?
a. Developmental norms were developed to account for different cultural developmental milestones.
b. Minority infants experience different family contexts from majority infants.
c. Parental care methods of different cultures may affect infant neuromotor performance.
d. Minority families often face socioeconomic disadvantage, inadequate access to health care, and substandard
housing.
Which of the following statements is FALSE about quality day care?
a. The child-to-adult ratio is high.
b. Caregivers have less authoritarian beliefs about child rearing.
c. The provision of stimulating physical facilities
d. The quality of caregiving is typically higher among in-home caregivers compared to caregiving in childcare
centers.
Some states have established a putative father registry to
a. find men who may have fathered a child and make them pay child support.
b. protect women who are victims of domestic violence.
c. notify men of potential offspring so they can assert their rights as birth fathers in the event of adoption
proceedings.
d. provide men with birth rights for a child the mother chooses to abort.
Which of the following statements is FALSE about Native American adoptions?
a. Adoptions involving Native American children require a release from the birth parents and the tribe.
b. In order to reduce time in foster care for Native American children, Congress passed the Indian Child Welfare
Act, which prohibits adoption decisions based solely on race, color, or national origin.
c. In order to preserve cultural heritage, Native American tribes feel that Native American children need to be
raised by Native American families.
d. In the 50s and 60s, many Native American children were removed from their families and were deprived of
their culture and heritage
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