Exam 1: Parenting Is a Process

Of the thirty-eight million immigrants in this country,about ____ percent are authorized to be here.

Jay Belsky believes that a major source of family stress is that society does not

Katherine Ellison believes motherhood improves all of the following abilities EXCEPT

Children and teens say that parents

In surveys,mothers and fathers report their children have changed them as individuals by making them aware of all of the following EXCEPT

School furniture specially designed to permit students more physical activity in class

Young men and women of outstanding achievement are identified as having special abilities early in life and get outstanding teaching so parents have a minimal role in children's achievements.

Briefly describe four protective factors that led to positive outcomes in the Rochester Longitudinal Study.

Parents who were abused as children are likely to abuse their own children.

Even those Americans who disapprove of the changes in family structures are optimistic about the future of marriage and the family.

The most positive views of parents' effectiveness are held by __________.

Currently,one in every __________ children in the U.S.lives in poverty.

Judith Rich Harris believes that __________ and peer group socialization determine adult personalities,not parents' behavior.

Briefly describe three ways that parenthood has positively changed Katherine Ellison.

Only thirty percent of parents believe government and employers are doing enough to help parents.

Those children living with neither biological parent are most often living with

Briefly describe three stresses Judith Warner experienced as a mother in contemporary society.

Researchers found that nine years after mothers attended a fourteen-week parenting program and learned to set fair and firm limits with boys,mothers

Except in the case of adoption,the biological father is the legal father.

Compared to children who do not have this gene,children who have the DRD4-7 repeat allele gene