Exam 12: The Family

In a study of Mexican American families, older siblings who embraced _____, which emphasizes interdependence, mutual support, and loyalty among family members, were not put at risk of higher levels of depressive symptoms or risky behaviours by their parents' preferential treatment of younger siblings.

Which statement about adolescent parents is TRUE?

What percentage of mothers with children under the age of 6 were employed outside of the home in 2015?

Around _____ of same-sex couples in Canada are raising children.

The employment status of which mother is LEAST likely to lead to negative outcomes for her children?

Which result is NOT a consequence of divorce on children?

Which factor is associated with a decreased likelihood of children experiencing negative consequences from their parents' divorce?

The influence that children have on their parents' parenting behaviours because of their appearance is _____. The influence that children have on their parents' parenting behaviours because of their own behaviour is _____.

The process through which children acquire the values, standards, skills, knowledge, and behaviours that are regarded as appropriate for their present and future roles in their particular culture is called

What percentage of children living with a single parent live below the national poverty line?

The average number of children born to a woman in Canada

Compared with other children, homeless children are:

The large-scale study of the effects of childcare that was funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Development (NICHD) in the United States demonstrated which finding about the effects of amount of childcare on the social behaviour of children from working- and middle-class families?

Which statement is NOT true regarding grandparents as primary caregivers?

Children of which type of parents tend to be low in social and academic competence, unhappy and unfriendly, and low in self-confidence, but do not tend to be particularly low in self-control or to be particularly high in impulsivity?

Parents who are low in support and low in control are considered to exhibit which parenting style?

Which statement about adolescent parents is TRUE?

Imagine that researchers interested in the possible bidirectional influence of children's aggression and parental use of punitive discipline examined these two variables when a group of children was at each of three ages: 4 years old, 8 years old, and 12 years old. Which finding would be the BEST support for the bidirectional influence of these variables?

Why do some children seem fine following a divorce, whereas others do poorly? Describe three factors likely to decrease children's risk for poor adjustment and three factors likely to increase children's risk. Explain the role these factors play.

On average, do stepmothers or stepfathers appear to have more difficulty with their stepchildren?