Exam 8: Work, Family Roles, and Material Resources

When people hear the word "welfare," they show different reactions.

For many parents, working outside of the house enhances their life.

Research shows that job flexibility is associated with less negative spillover from work to family.

Successful couples

What effect does poverty have on children?

A major stress for families in maintaining family life involves

Haddock and her colleagues studied how successful families balance work and family. What are the ten adaptive strategies they found within their study?

Throughout the U.S., in almost every demographic category, individuals earned less in 2014 than they did in

Currently in the U.S., as mentioned in the text, the number of unemployed or underemployed persons is 17 million.

One strategy for meeting financial needs is to use

The Economic Policy Institute concluded that the gap between the rich and the poor

To have more family time, some couples

The most important motives for working are

Family scholars are not concerned about the time demand and hectic pace of parents' jobs on families.

Median monthly rent in 2015 was

A growing number of poor families are

How does unemployment affect families?

Divorce is common among couples in which one spouse works nights.

What occurs when there is spillover of stress from work to family? Give examples.

__________ have devoted considerable effort to comparing employed and non-employed women to determine the effects on spousal relationships.