Deck 12: From Family Values to Valuing Families

Question 1

Family policy refers to:

A) Funding to affect the quality of family life.
B) Legislation that is enacted with regard to family life.
C) Social goals intended to achieve some desired outcome for families.
D) Social practices that effect family life.

Answer 1

Social goals intended to achieve some desired outcome for families.

Question 2

Shehan's three purposes of family policy include:

A) Assisting families or family members in need.
B) Controlling families or regulate individuals.
C) Challenging emerging trends.
D) All of the above.

Answer 2

All of the above.

Question 3

All of the following are identified by your authors as involved in generating family policy EXCEPT:

A) International organizations like The Hague.
B) Local, state, federal, and international governments and their agencies.
C) Media outlets.
D) Nongovernmental organizations.

Answer 3

Media outlets.

Question 4

Regarding family policy in the United States:

A) The emphasis is on gender equality and equity for all children.
B) Per capita spending on families is decreasing.
C) The United States does not have a comprehensive family policy.
D) The United States currently spends approximately 5 percent of GNP on family programs.

Question 5

Family science and family policy:

A) Have a long history of cooperation.
B) Share the same goals and values: helping families thrive.
C) May depend on family scientists reaching out and communicating in the language of family policy.
D) None of the above

Question 6

Direct effects of social policy on families:

A) Include the effects of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2006.
B) Include programs like the World Health Organizations efforts around family and community health
C) Refers to everything governments do that affects families.
D) Are limited to those that result in favorable outcomes for families.

Question 7

The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA):

A) Aimed to reduce welfare dependency and strengthen marriage.
B) Seemed to show a 50% decline in welfare dependency.
C) Was enacted at a time of economic prosperity.
D) All of the above.

Question 8

Principles for evidence-based program improvement should be:

A) Conducted over short, measurable time intervals.
B) Independent of qualities of the staff running the program.
C) Separated from the sociocultural considerations.
D) Theory driven.

Question 9

Karraker and Grochowski advocate:

A) Environmental impact statements.
B) Family impact statements.
C) Greater family reliance on public sources of support.
D) None of the above.

Question 10

A review of family policies enacted at the federal level over the last decade reveals:

A) Policies with both direct and indirect effects on families.
B) Contradictory efforts to affect the quality of family life.
C) Few policies that addressed family well-being.
D) Policies that focused primarily on family economics.

Question 11

The building blocks of family well-being include:

A) Non-governmental organizations.
B) Policy, law, and practice.
C) Both a & b
D) None of the above.

Question 12

Family life education:

A) Has a long tradition in the United States.
B) Includes clergy, nurses, social workers, teachers, or other professionals.
C) Is best left to religious organizations that have the moral investment in the future of families.
D) Is primarily intended for those planning to marry.

Question 13

"CFLE" refers to:

A) A certification by the National Council of Family Relations.
B) Community Family Liaison Educator.
C) An honorary designation awarded to family scientists who have made important contributions to the field.
D) A part of the Healthy Marriage Resource Center.

Question 14

"Parents Forever:"

A) Aims to reduce the negative effects of divorce on children.
B) Is a program established by one of your authors to intervene when young women were contemplating adoption.
C) Is a punitive program used by family courts to bring neglectful parents back to the family.
D) Represents family life scholars' emphasis on reducing divorce rates.

Question 15

Carroll and Doherty's study of premarital prevention programs found:

A) Little effect of the programs.
B) Those who participated in the programs were, on the average, better off than those who did not.
C) Those who participated in the programs were less likely to marry.
D) When race was controlled, those who participated showed no improvement in short-term outcomes.

Question 16

The discourse around families is:

A) Rooted in religious traditions.
B) Institutionalized in education and other institutions.
C) Translated into economic and educational, political and social consequences for families.
D) All of the above.

Question 17

Sterling Wall, Ph.D., CFLE argues that:

A) Family studies has become too mired in controversy to make a difference in the lives of families.
B) Making a difference in the lives of families is best left to those with high levels of academic training.
C) May require observations beyond the familiar.
D) The primary job of family studies is answering the ongoing debate about family diversity.

Question 18

Coates identified five trends facing families. Those trends include all of the following EXCEPT:

A) Abortion.
B) High rates of marriage dissolution.
C) Redefinition of family.
D) Stresses on family functions.

Question 19

The authors of Families with Futures add another trend to the five trends Coates identified facing families:

A) End-of-life issues.
B) Migration.
C) Poverty.
D) Technology.

Question 20

In closing the final chapter in Families with Futures, Karraker and Grochowski:

A) Advocate that family studies should return to a clear definition of what it means to be a family.
B) Argue that family scholars should leave issues of ethics to the philosophers.
C) Remind readers to "get as much education as you can."
D) Remind family scholars to use scholarly tools, including theory and methods, to understand families.

Question 21

Relate family policy to law and practice. What are the purposes of family policy?

Question 22

How might family policy better support families in the United States?

Question 23

Describe direct and indirect effects in family policy.

Question 24

What is a "CFLE?"

Question 25

How will you respond as a family studies professional to family trends in the 21^st century?