Deck 14: Making Family Policy Matter: Moving From Analysis to Action

Question 1

Researchers can build policy development capacities utilizing methods such as family impact discussion starters, the family impact checklist method, and family impact analysis.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

According to Kunin, the next generation of family policy activists will need to be fueled with anger, imagination, and optimism.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is the total value of goods produced and services provided in a country during one year.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Governments embrace parochial agendas when they focus on community needs instead of local interests.

Question 5

Research has shown that society creates juvenile delinquents with harsh and inconsistent parenting in the preschool years.

Question 6

Bogenschneider cites the main five areas of focus for family policy as: family formation, partner relationships, economic support, childrearing, and caregiving.

Question 7

The formation of the Tea Party movement provides an example of anger as a catalyst for change by a young person.

Question 8

What is the difference between building "policy development" and "policy watchdog" capacities? Which one does Bogenschneider say is more important?

Question 9

To change the world of family policy, Ambassador and Governor Madeleine Kunin argues that imagination is needed. What influences young people's ability to imagine a better world?