All of the following are true of teenage mothers EXCEPT:
a. higher poverty
b. poorer health habits
c. low birth weight babies
d. higher academic achievement of the mother
Ques. 2The primary disadvantage of having a child in the later years is:
a. the parents have low income
b. the parents are likely to die around the time the child reaches adulthood
c. the medical costs are too high to maintain a pregnancy
d. the child faces the stigma of having old parents
Ques. 3The primary developmental advantage for the child of retirement-aged parents is:
a. the attention the parents can devote to the child
b. the stable income of the parents
c. the connections the parents have established by this age for institutional profit
d. the role model as a happy couple
Ques. 4Pronatalism refers to which of the following?
a. the cultural preference for male children over female children
b. the social norm that women are the primary child caregivers
c. the social norm that expects women to be married before giving birth
d. the cultural attitude that encourages childbearing and rearing
Ques. 5Which group has the highest fertility level?
a. Hispanics
b. African Americans
c. Non-Hispanic whites
d. Muslims
Ques. 6What percentage of U.S. pregnancies are unintended?
a. 5
b. 80
c. half
d. about 33
Ques. 7The primary reason for unintended pregnancies include all of the following EXCEPT:
a. forgot to take the pill
b. assumed they would not get pregnant with one exposure
c. rebelling against parents
d. pregnancy coercion
Ques. 8A woman should be sterilized only if:
a. she never wants to have children or does not want to have additional children
b. her partner agrees to sterilization
c. her partner insists on sterilization (and he does it too)
d. she has already had a child
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