Exam 10: The Changing Family

Discuss the impact of the economic recession of 2008 on individuals and families in the United States.Be sure to include in your answer the impact on homelessness,and the "boomeranger" effect.

A/an __________ family is held together not so much by feelings of warmth and attraction among the members as by outside pressures.

In the __________ family,individual nuclear families live separately,but the extended family remains a strong kinship organization through a combination of interpersonal attachments and various forms of economic exchanges and mutual aid.

A family in which there is child abuse typically can have __________.

Sociologists generally agree that one of the most important social trends of the second half of the twentieth century has resulted in a total upheaval of traditional male and female roles within the family.This trend is __________.

In Kathleen Gerson's study of middle-class men's reactions to the prospect of shouldering more of the responsibility for domestic tasks like child care,a significant proportion of those interviewed were choosing the single life and becoming what were called "__________ males."

Which of the following statements about "boomerangers" is TRUE?

Divorce rates have increased in the United States.Why is this so? What problems are created by divorce rate increases?

__________ theorists take the view that some forms of crime and other types of deviance result from the inability of some groups,such as the poor,to maintain their traditional structures in settings of rapid social change.

A family has problems because a parent is serving in the military during a war or because the "bread winner" is unemployed during an economic recession.These family problems are due to __________.

Sociologists agree that the family is __________.

All family types everywhere have a basic feature,which is __________.

According to family research expert,David Popenoe,the seedbed of social virtue is __________.

Which of the following is NOT an important factor in the continuation of empty-shell marriages?

According to the text,in African American communities,rates of marriage vary positively with __________.

About __________ of all marriages begun during the past two decades will end in divorce.

According to the text's discussion of cohabiting couples,__________.

In a recent review of 40 studies of children of same-sex couples sponsored by the American Psychological Association,researchers found that,in comparison with children from heterosexual couples,children of gay unions are __________.

What is the family? Define this term and describe how families have changed as societies have industrialized.

Recently in the United States,a category of the population with relatively fewer divorces has shown an important increase in divorce rates.These are persons __________.