Family Today and Yesterday
Divorce
Interracial and Blended families
Single Parents
Vocabulary
100
What was the typical role of a mother in a 50's sitcom?
What was a housewife/homemaker?
100
Who has the greatest risk of divorce
Young Couples
100
What is the first noted Blended family/stepfamily on TV
The Brady Bunch
100
Who has the highest rate of single-parent households
What is African Americans
100
Incest taboo
a norm forbidding sexual relations or marriage between certain relatives
200
what did the nuclear family not talk about?
What is controversial/private issues
200
Who usually gains custody in Divorce
What is the Mother
200
What is Loving's first name?
Richard
200
What are two disadvantages (according to Macionis) of growing up in single-parent family
1. start out poorer 2. get less schooling 3. end up with lower incomes as adults 4. more likely to become single parents
200
Monogamy
Marriage that unites two partners
300
what type of family did TV portray in the 50's?
What is the suburban, middle class, white, nuclear family
300
In what decade was Divorce the Highest?
What is the 1980s
300
How many people in the United states are considered multicultural? (percent or population accepted)
7.4 % or 6.8 million
300
According to Macionis, The rise of single-parenting results in
What is the declining role for fathers and the growing importance of grandmothers
300
Descent
the system by which members of society trace kinship over generations
400
What was the role of the children in the early family?
What is to be seen and not heard
400
What are the four causes out of the six causes for divorce
1. Individualism 2. Romantic love fades 3. Independence of women 4. Stress 5. Socially acceptable 6. Easier to get
400
What is the Marriage Squeeze?
It refers to black women not be able to find a black counterpart that has the same education background
400
How many children live with one parent now?
What is 28 percent
400
Nuclear family
a family composed of one or two parents and their children
500
What was the first sitcom to show a single parent family
What is Julia
500
How much higher is the United States divorce rate than Italy and Ireland?
What is 5x higher
500
What is one of the stages of stepfamily development?
fantasy, immersion, awareness, mobilization, action, contact, resolution
500
What percent of males are single parents? (2006)
What is 20 percent
500
Exogamy
marriage between two people of different social categories
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