Which of the following is NOT true about marriage, generally speaking, in the United States?
A. It is a legal contract as well as a ceremony
B. It is expected to be permanent, although participants may dissolve it
C. It is open to any couple, so long as they are of opposite sex (e.g., one man and one woman)
D. Our understanding of marriage is actually quite narrow and excludes many committed partnerships that function as marriages in all but the legal sense.
Ques. 2Family laws guiding property division take current and future earnings into account when dividing up marital assets. Briefly explain.
What will be an ideal response?
Ques. 3Which of the following is NOT an example of quantitative research given in your text?
A. focus groups
B. surveys
C. experiments
D. secondary data analysis
Ques. 4Which of the following would NOT be considered a legal basis for an annulment?
(a) a marriage that took place even though one of the parties was under age
(b) failure to consummate the marriage
(c) husband was still married to another woman
(d) wife refused to live with the husband's parents
Ques. 5In the ________ at least one child in the family is the biological child of the parents and another child is from a previous marriage.
A) biological father-stepmother family
B) biological mother-stepfather family
C) joint biological-stepfamily
D) co-custodial stepfamily
Ques. 6According to experts, the average amount spent on weddings today is between
(a) 1,000-5,000
(b) 5,000-10,000
(c) 20,000-25,000
(d) 28,000-30,000
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