Exam 3: Families: Where Children Are Nurtured

According to the U.S.Census Bureau in 2002,only 45 percent of children lived with both parents.

Sometimes parents express anger toward caregivers

Some ways to maintain communication with parents you don't see every day are ____________________,____________________,and ____________________.

Single parents,especially mothers,often suffer from low economic status.

Research done by McKeever in 2009 has show that the most important factor in children's success in life is growing up in a stable household regardless of whether it is a one parent or a two parent household.

The children of mothers who have never married may feel deprived of ______________________________ that fathers can provide.

Caregivers must share the responsibility for children's welfare with parents and elementary school teachers.List some ways they can do this.

The reason that children do well in a household headed by the father is that ________________________________________.

Mothers who have never married cannot raise well-adjusted children.

Children who belong to cliques sometimes carry on ______________________________ against other children.

The definition of a family has changed. Explain how.

Children who attend child care have fewer advantages than those who do not.

Name three ingredients for an effective family.

A binuclear family is one in which parents have divorced and remarried,bringing together children from their previous marriages.

What are five terms used for families in which divorced parents remarry?

Girls need a father with whom they can practice ___________________________________.

The most frequently voiced complaint of working parents is they never have enough ______________________________.

Probably the most difficult problem for the single-parent family,especially if headed by the mother,is ______________________________.

A well-functioning family will

When comparing mental health,peer relations and gender role behavior of children raised by lesbian or gay parents they do not differ from children raised by ______________________________.