The study of marriage and family is:
a. both abstract and personal.
b. neither abstract nor personal.
c. abstract but not personal.
d. personal but not abstract.
Ques. 2Law professors Naomi Cahn and June Carbine identified family characteristics more common to blue states that include all of the following except:
a. delayed childbearing.
b. greater emphasis on career and education.
c. lower divorce rates.
d. lower use of abortion.
Ques. 3Law professors Naomi Cahn and June Carbine identified family characteristics more common to red states that include all of the following except:
a. lower divorce rates.
b. greater emphasis on abstinence.
c. younger age at marriage and childbirth.
d. higher teen pregnancy rates.
Ques. 4The Modern Family Effect is an argument that:
a. changing cultural and moral norms has allowed more diverse family styles to develop for the first time in American history.
b. a television show based on a same-sex couple's daily life has made its audience more accepting of difference.
c. the family functions more liberally when there is enhanced technological opportunity.
d. media influences religious beliefs and church attitudes toward social changes.
Ques. 5When it comes to opinions and values about marriage and family relationships:
a. the wider society is conflicted, but academic disciplines are not.
b. academic disciplines are conflicted, but wider society is not.
c. both the wider society and academic disciplines are conflicted.
d. neither the wider society nor academic disciplines are conflicted.
Ques. 6David Popenoe has concluded that:
a. in high-conflict marriages, parents should stay together for the sake of the children.
b. there is no such thing as a good divorce.
c. the negative effects of divorce on children are short-term and disappear by adulthood.
d. except in high-conflict marriages, it is better for the children if their parents remain together and work out their problems.
Ques. 7What most determines the decisions we make about what families need?
a. The perspectives we have about the current status of family life or the directions in which it is heading.
b. Our view of how the family has evolved into what it is today.
c. Our conclusions about the problems families have faced in the past.
d. Our view of how the importance of family functions.
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