Deck 20: Fetal Rights: a New Assault on Feminism Katha Pollitt

Question 1

It is estimated that approximately percent of marriages will end in divorce.

A) 25
B) 33
C) 43
D) 50

Answer 1

C

Question 2

The Defense of Marriage Act, passed by Congress and signed by President Clinton, declared that the federal government may not consider same sex relationship as marriage even if one or more states do.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Families are going deeper into debt because of the declined of traditional marriage between a man and a woman.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

More people declare bankruptcy than file for divorce.

Question 5

Evidence shows that Americans have grown indifferent to marriage.

Question 6

What impact does the economy have on the institution of family?

Question 7

Sociologist Frank Furstenberg said that "ensuring the well-being of children has far less to do with the marital status of the family they live in than with the resources-financial, psychological, and social-their parents bring to the task of raising them" . Do you agree or disagree? Explain.

Question 8

Discuss Skolnick's argument that contemporary family problems, such as delays in marriage, poor unmarried women having children, and young adult children moving back home are rooted far more deeply in economic factors than in psychological or cultural ones. Do you agree or disagree? Explain.

Question 9

Which of the following reasons best explains the rising tide of debt among American families?

A) overconsumption of luxury goods and consequent inability of families to live within their means
B) young adult offspring moving back home, seemingly unable to launch themselves into adulthood
C) the declining rate of marriage among heterosexual couples
D) the inability of families to meet basic, fixed expenses, such as mortgage payments, taxes, tuition, health insurance, etc.

Question 10

According to Skolnick, the majority of mothers are in the workforces today because they have chosen to "opt out" of motherhood in favor of a career.

Question 11

The so-called "marriage movement" of the 1990's sought to:

A) halt America's moral decay by restoring a culture of marriage and traditional fatherhood, discourage alternative forms of family, and revive the stigma and shame to divorce and single motherhood.
B) enact federal legislation that would consider same sex unions as marriage, even if one or more states do not.
C) bring to the public's attention the demise of traditional family structure that is tantamount to 'lawless social anarchy'.
D) offer a historical perspective on American family changes that now include diverse types of family composition.

Question 12

In what year did the federal Defense of Marriage Act DOMA) pass?

A) 1975
B) 1982
C) 1996
D) 2001

Question 13

The U.S. Census Bureau projects that percent of Americans will marry at some point in their lives.

A) 43
B) 75
C) 84
D) 90