Vocabulary
Trends
Theories
Challenges
Bonus
100
People joined by marriage, blood, cohabitation, or adoption
What is family?
100
Form of family that includes parents and children, and is less common now than in the 1970s.
What is nuclear family?
100
True or False: Functionalists argue that gender roles within the family are dysfunctional.
What is False?
100
True or False: Divorce rates have been slowly increasing since 1980.
What is False?
100
The first reality show in the U.S., it featured a gay son and ended in a parental divorce.
What is An American Family (1973)?
200
The family into which a person is born.
What is family of orientation?
200
Most children who live with one parent live with their:
What is mother?
200
According to conflict theorists, men have traditionally had more power within households because they have more access to which important resource?
What is money?
200
The older people are when they first marry, the ________ (more/less) likely they are to divorce.
What is less?
200
Percentage of Americans who marry and then divorce.
What is 41%
300
Practice in which a couple shares a residence but not a marriage.
What is cohabitation?
300
True or False: In 2011, about 50% of people reported cohabiting with a romantic partner.
What is False? (about 11%)
300
This theory would focus on the changing meaning of parenting in the U.S.
What is symbolic interactionism?
300
Children of divorced parents are ______(more/less) likely to divorce than other children.
What is more?
300
30% of women who are murdered are the victims of these people.
What is intimate partners?
400
Practice in which a man has multiple wives.
What is polygyny?
400
Most children raised in same-gender households are _______ (adopted/biological/foster) children.
What is biological?
400
Conflict theorists note that when men do more _________, their wives experience more satisfaction in marriages.
What is housework?
400
___________ are most susceptible to intimate partner violence, especially severe violence and sexual assault.
What is women?
400
Another term for physical discipline (e.g., spanking).
What is corporal punishment?
500
Type of system in which it is customary for the husband to live with his wife's blood relatives.
What is matrilocal residence?
500
True or False: By age 40, a greater percentage of women have never married than men.
What is True? (20% of women, 14% of men).
500
For functionalists, men serve a(n) _________ role within the family, while women serve an expressive role.
What is instrumental?
500
The most common form of child maltreatment.
What is neglect?
500
The most common reason people do not report familial abuse.
What is it is considered a private matter?
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