Deck 18: A: Families

Question 1

Romantic love is the basis of marriage in preindustrial societies.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Endogamy refers to the pattern of people marrying partners socially like themselves.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Feminist analysis links the operation of the family to patriarchy.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

According to David Popence,Sweden has the weakest families on earth.

Question 5

Social class affects what women expect in a husband.

Question 6

Around the world,most marriages have been polygamous.

Question 7

The structural-functional approach points out how family perpetuates social inequality.

Question 8

In many African nations,the law permits a man to have more than one wife.

Question 9

Another name for the extended family is the conjugal family.

Question 10

Parents and children form an extended family.

Question 11

Kinship is based on common ancestry,marriage,or adoption.

Question 12

Bilateral descent is found in societies that have a relatively high level of gender equality.

Question 13

The dominant residential form in Canada is neolocality.

Question 14

The trend toward smaller families holds for all industrial societies except the United States.

Question 15

"Latchkey kids" is the name given to children who go to day care after school.

Question 16

Increasing numbers of First Nations members are living off-reserve.

Question 17

Exogamy means that parents of similar social position pass on their standing to their children.

Question 18

In traditional societies,parents may arrange the marriages of their very young children.

Question 19

Polyandry unites one female with two or more males in marriage.

Question 20

Sexual activity outside marriage is called infidelity.

Question 21

People in Canada today are more accepting of divorce than they were a century ago.

Question 22

In recent years,same-sex marriage has become legal throughout the United States.

Question 23

Four out of five people in Canada who divorce remarry at some point.

Question 24

One reason for today's high divorce rate in Canada is that women are more economically dependent on men.

Question 25

Most cases of family violence involve men as both victims and offenders.

Question 26

In vitro fertilization refers to conception by an unmarried couple.

Question 27

Native residential schools are largely responsible for Aboriginal elders losing their authority in families.

Question 28

New reproductive technologies complicate the issue of biological parentage.

Question 29

Most research suggests that growing up in a one-parent family disadvantages children.

Question 30

The most serious problem among families with one parent is poverty.

Question 31

The proportion of couples cohabiting in Canada doubled from 1981 to 2006.

Question 32

Jessie Bernard claimed that women would be happier in marriage if men did not expect them to do almost all the housework.