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1
In discussing issues related to migration, the author of "The Significant Dynamic Relationship between Globalization and Families" observes that:
A)migration is a phenomenon unrelated to globalization.
B)at present, close to a quarter of the world's population is on the move.
C)both highly educated and poorly educated individuals migrate.
D)migration has no positive results for the country left behind.
2
As identified in "The Significant Dynamic Relationship between Globalization and Families," the only two countries in the world that have not signed the Convention on the Rights of the Child are Somalia and:
A)China.
B)Indonesia.
C)Argentina.
D)the United States.
3
According to "The Significant Dynamic Relationship between Globalization and Families," globalization has only improved the lives of women in the developing world
A)True
B)False
4
According to "Matches Made on Earth," men and women are treated like what, until they are married?
A)unique individuals.
B)adolescents.
C)they are promiscuous.
D)deviants.
5
As reported in, "Matches Made on Earth," a study by the Pew Research Center, 86 percent of respondents in their survey found that one parent and a child would constitute:
A)a family.
B)a parent child bond.
C)non-traditional view of families.
D)would never be considered a family.
6
As stated in "Matches Made on Earth," kinship remains one major way that family members bond with each other.
A)True
B)False
7
As explained in "Relationships, Community, and Identity in the New Virtual Society," although technology is being lauded for encouraging diversity and facilitating cross-cultural communication, there is a counter-trend known as:
A)the electronic divide.
B)intra-social solidarity.
C)virtual insularity.
D)digital tribalism.
8
As cited in "Relationships, Community, and Identity in the New Virtual Society," the pollster John Zogby calls the emerging generation that links up through IM, Twitter, blogs, smart-phones, and social networking sites:
A)Generation Z.
B)Virtual Villagers.
C)World Citizens.
D)First Globals.
9
As mentioned in "Relationships, Community, and Identity in the New Virtual Society," Chinese people who participate in wang hun, or online role-play marriages, are sometimes getting divorced on the grounds that this constitutes adultery.
A)True
B)False
10
As explained in "This Thing Called Love," the intense energy, exhilaration, focused attention, and motivation to win rewards associated with being in love are created by the neurotransmitter:
A)norepinephrine.
B)dopamine.
C)Prozac.
D)norephrine.
11
As explored in "This Thing Called Love," evolutionary theory suggests that we choose mates who:
A)remind us of our parents.
B)seem highly intelligent.
C)are our equals in most ways.
D)look healthy.
12
As pointed out in "This Thing Called Love," anti-depressants like Prozac can stimulate attraction between partners and increase their satisfaction in their relationship.
A)True
B)False
13
As noted in "Women, Men, and the Bedroom," the use of median values reveals that the majority of men and women desire a similar number of sexual partners over a 30-year period—that number being:
A)one.
B)two.
C)four.
D)six.
14
As related in "Women, Men, and the Bedroom," in 2003, Alexander and Fisher elicited more truthful responses about numbers of sexual partners by falsely convincing participants that a sophisticated electronic apparatus could detect true feelings—a technique they dubbed the:
A)phony baloney machine.
B)nonfunctional polygraph.
C)bogus pipeline.
D)lover's lie meter.
15
As reported in "Women, Men, and the Bedroom," attractiveness and status are found to be moreimportant to men than to women when considering actual dating partners (both in initial speed-dating encounters and a month after those encounters) across a variety of dependent measures.
A)True
B)False
16
As presented in "Knowing Your Own Mate Value," to test their hypotheses, the authors investigated mate choices in the real-life speed-dating context known as the:
A)Asendorpf Laboratory of Dating.
B)Berlin Speed Dating Study.
C)NEO Five-Factor Inventory.
D)Speed Dating Survey at the University of California, Berkeley.
17
As identified in "Knowing Your Own Mate Value," the tendency to desire uncommitted sexuality is captured in the personality trait labeled:
A)condescension.
B)sociosexuality.
C)agreeableness.
D)exploitativeness.
18
As explained in "Knowing Your Own Mate Value," long-term mating tactics are associated with high investment in finding and courting multiple potential mates.
A)True
B)False
19
According to "The Expectations Trap," psychologist Barry Schwartz of Swarthmore College says that we live under the tyranny of:
A)fantasy.
B)excessive choice.
C)limited options.
D)want.
20
As pointed out in "The Expectations Trap," Finkel and Rusbult contend that in a relationship, commitment:
A)is not an accurate predictor of relationship durability.
B)sensitizes both partners to attractive other options.
C)motivates the derogation of alternative partners.
D)weakens the resolve toward accommodation.
21
As reported in "The Expectations Trap," negative emotions get priority processing in the human brain.
A)True
B)False
22
As reported in "Waiting to Wed," numerous studies reveal that among young men and women, those who say they would like to get married someday number around:
A)35 percent.
B)50 percent.
C)80 percent.
D)95 percent.
23
According to "Waiting to Wed," it is common for young men and women to believe that a liability of marriage is:
A)declining health.
B)in-law interference.
C)the end of good sex.
D)financial duress.
24
As put forth in "Waiting to Wed," the majority of young adults in America not only think they should explore different relationships, they believe it may be foolish and wrong not to.
A)True
B)False
25
As claimed in "Strengthening Connections in Interracial Marriages through Pre-Marital Inventories," the majority of marriage-education programs generally are developed for and offered to:
A)financially secure church-going couples.
B)black and Hispanic teen couples.
C)poorly educated low-income couples.
D)Caucasian middle-class couples.
26
As set forth in "Strengthening Connections in Interracial Marriages through Pre-Marital Inventories," of the top three most widely used PIs, it appears that the only inventory that heavily considers the closeness a couple will have with their extended family is:
A)PREPARE.
B)EXAMINE.
C)BRIDGE.
D)OUTLOOK.
27
According to "Strengthening Connections in Interracial Marriages through Pre-Marital Inventories," interracial marriages have more than doubled in the last 20 years.
A)True
B)False
28
As pointed out in "Why Won't This New Mom Wash Her Hair?", researchers have traced the history of la cuarentena back to the:
A)conquest of Peru.
B)Bible.
C)European colonization of Hispaniola.
D)Aztec Empire.
29
As observed in "Why Won't This New Mom Wash Her Hair?", during la cuarentena, the new mother must wrap her abdomen in:
A)a cloth called a faja.
B)woven corn husks.
C)braids of fresh wool.
D)a coarse blanket, or serape.
30
As noted in "Why Won't This New Mom Wash Her Hair?", Chinese tradition dictates that during her postpartum period, a woman should avoid cold water, bamboo shoots, and turnips.
A)True
B)False
31
As referenced in "Getting It Right from the Start: The Case for Early Parenthood Education," the classic work The Psychology and Pedagogy of Reading was written in 1908 by educator:
A)Edmund Burke Huey.
B)Sandra Van Fossen.
C)Betty Hart.
D)Walter Loban.
32
As stated in "Getting It Right from the Start: The Case for Early Parenthood Education," the author and his colleagues put forth a three-part model of the development of literacy they call the:
A)literacy parallax.
B)oracy roadmap.
C)literacy-to-oracy paradigm.
D)oracy-to-literacy effect.
33
As expressed in "Getting It Right from the Start: The Case for Early Parenthood Education," the most effective early childhood-education programs include early parenthood education.
A)True
B)False
34
As set forth in "Two Views of Marriage and the Falsity of the Choice between Them," against the traditionalist's "comprehensive union," the revisionist understands marriage as what the author calls:.
A)mutual consensual union.
B)maximal experiential union.
C)new-normal union.
D)universal emotional union.
35
As suggested in "Two Views of Marriage and the Falsity of the Choice between Them," were we to establish a two-tier system for the legal considerations of couples, a couple would automatically pass into the second tier when they:
A)have children.
B)pledge their troth.
C)exchange marriage vows.
D)register with the state for privileges of union.
36
As cited in "Two Views of Marriage and the Falsity of the Choice between Them," Roger Scruton thinks that, the sexes being different, the experience of homosexual desire is dissimilar—and presumably inferior—to the experience of heterosexual desire.
A)True
B)False
37
As asserted in "Can Marriage Be Saved?" the idealized Western model of the nuclear family as the gold standard for healthy family units is a concept that:
A)reflects the "natural unit" in which human beings were meant to live.
B)emerged due to social and economic conditions after World War II.
C)has been universal throughout the world since recorded history began.
D)has been proven through research to be essential to societal stability.
38
As noted in "Can Marriage Be Saved?" most European nations that are currently seeing changes in the nuclear family system are:
A)ignoring what they see in the hope that it is simply a phase.
B)passing legislation aimed at preserving the nuclear-family structure.
C)requesting assistance from the United States to manage the problem.
D)setting policy to assist new and emerging forms of the family.
39
As stated in "Can Marriage Be Saved?" in order to research properly the effects of various family structures on children, it is essential to consider social selection.
A)True
B)False
40
According to "The Polygamists," members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints are not permitted to:
A)use cell phones.
B)leave the compound alone.
C)undergo surgery.
D)watch television.
41
As reported in "The Polygamists," a woman's primary role in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is to:
A)obey orders.
B)have and raise as many children as possible.
C)glorify God.
D)have and satisfy many husbands.
42
As observed in "The Polygamists," intermarriage in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has had no adverse physical consequences.
A)True
B)False
43
As cited in "Are You with the Right Mate?," New York psychotherapist Ken Page goes around the country speaking about what he calls:
A)normal marital hatred.
B)inevitable partner disillusionment.
C)abnormal spousal contempt.
D)irrational domestic boredom.
44
As mentioned in "Are You with the Right Mate?," clinical psychologist Christine Meinecke espouses a new marital paradigm, which she calls the:
A)road less traveled.
B)self-responsible spouse.
C)imaginary helpmate.
D)Adam and Eve complex.
45
As noted in "Are You with the Right Mate?," marriage therapist William Doherty maintains that men generally initiate more breakups and two-thirds of divorces.
A)True
B)False
46
As cited in "How to Stay Married," Iris Krasnow, author of The Secret Lives of Women, comes to the subject of her journalistic journey from the vantage point of her:
A)23-year marriage to an architect.
B)experience as a twice-divorced woman.
C)12 years as a marriage counselor.
D)recent widowhood.
47
According to "How to Stay Married," the fastest-growing demographic in our society is:
A)multiple-times-divorced men.
B)unmarried men and women over 40.
C)widows under 60.
D)women over 80.
48
As quoted in "How to Stay Married," Krasnow strongly disagrees that women should lower their expectations of what marriage can provide.
A)True
B)False
49
According to "Good Parents, Bad Results," the best discipline programs for children are grounded in:
A)positive reinforcement.
B)the carrot-and-stick approach.
C)corporal punishment.
D)tough love.
50
As brought out in "Good Parents, Bad Results," research has shown that not having behavior limits for children:
A)encourages child creativity.
B)works better with girls than with boys.
C)has been proven to make children more defiant and rebellious.
D)is effective only with school-age children.
51
As asserted in "Good Parents, Bad Results," setting and enforcing rules are an essential part of the job description of being a parent.
A)True
B)False
52
As reported in "Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior," in one study of 50 Western American mothers and 48 Chinese immigrant mothers, the majority of the Western mothers said that "parents need to foster the idea that learning is fun"; the number of the 48 Chinese mothers who agreed was roughly:
A)zero.
B)10.
C)25.
D)40.
53
According to "Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior," there are studies indicating that, compared to Western parents, Chinese parents spend approximately 10 times as long every day with their children:
A)meditating.
B)berating them.
C)in interactive recreation.
D)drilling on academic activities.
54
As explained in "Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior," for Chinese parents, the solution to substandard performance is always to excoriate, punish, and shame the child
A)True
B)False
55
As clarified in "Fathers' Involvement and Children's Developmental Outcomes," the authors' definition of the term "father" as categorized in this article includes all of the following, except:
A)a man cohabiting with the child's mother.
B)an adoptive father.
C)a stepfather.
D)a biological father.
56
As pointed out in "Fathers' Involvement and Children's Developmental Outcomes," one limitation for the publications reviewed is that 14 of the 24 articles included are from the United States and another 7 from:
A)Canada.
B)South America.
C)China.
D)the United Kingdom.
57
As reported in "Fathers' Involvement and Children's Developmental Outcomes," in a large U.S. study of disadvantaged families, high father involvement at age 6 was associated with more hyperactivity at age 14.
A)True
B)False
58
According to "Children of Lesbian and Gay Parents," a major problem with early research that compared children of lesbian mothers and children of heterosexual mothers was that:
A)researchers tended to slant the results against the lesbian mothers.
B)the children of lesbian mothers had so many problems that they were difficult to study.
C)all the children studied had been born into a heterosexual family structure.
D)the studies proved of little value in divorce and child custody cases.
59
As explained in "Children of Lesbian and Gay Parents," the Bay Area Families Study was one of the first studies to look at children who were:
A)born to or adopted early in life by lesbian mothers.
B)being raised by lesbian mothers in heterosexual relationships.
C)adopted by gay men.
D)gay or lesbian and being raised by heterosexual couples.
60
As stated in "Children of Lesbian and Gay Parents," one of the problems with the Bay Area Families Study was that the study participants were self-selected
A)True
B)False
61
As explained in "Parenting Gay Youth," LGBT face isolation, rejection and complete withdraw from:
A)their parents.
B)other gay youth.
C)from their extended family.
D)none of the above.
62
As mentioned in "Parenting Gay Youth: Creating a Supportive Environment," gay youth most often look to their parents for ultimate support, but unfortunately, parents cannot overcome:
A)distancing themselves from their gay youth.
B)struggling with their own gender identity.
C)the hurdles of prejudice.
D)none of the above.
63
As reported in "Parenting Gay Youth: Creating a Supportive Environment," Homosexuality is a choice.
A)True
B)False
64
According to "Parental Responsibility and Obesity in Children," the conventional cutoff for obesity is currently a BMI greater than:
A)30.
B)45.
C)50.
D)62.
65
As quoted in "Parental Responsibility and Obesity in Children," the advice to "Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it" is taken from:
A)the Book of Proverbs.
B)the Islamic Quran.
C)Kahil Gibran's The Prophet.
D)Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack.
66
As pointed out in "Parental Responsibility and Obesity in Children," most obese people have not become obese by monstrous overeating.
A)True
B)False
67
The author of "The Forgotten Siblings" contends that in family therapy:
A)sibling relationships have been over-emphasized.
B)sibling relationships may have been overlooked.
C)parents get too much attention.
D)only children with problems receive sufficient attention.
68
As given in "The Forgotten Siblings," traditionally, the focus of family therapy has been:
A)sibling relationships.
B)father-mother relationships.
C)parent-child relationships.
D)in-law relationships.
69
As brought up in "The Forgotten Siblings," sibling relationships are where children practice identity.
A)True
B)False
70
As observed in "Sibling Rivalry Grows Up," sibling rivalry often persists into adulthood because in many families it:
A)has already destroyed any chance of reconciliation.
B)is enjoyed by the siblings.
C)goes unaddressed.
D)is openly encouraged by the family.
71
As cited in "Sibling Rivalry Grows Up," psychologist Jeanne Safer believes sibling rivals speak in a kind of dialect, which she calls:
A)backhanded banter.
B)familial fodder.
C)rival ramble.
D)sib speak.
72
As related in "Sibling Rivalry Grows Up," experts say that, although adult sibling rivalry is not uncommon, it is not among the most harmful issues in a family.
A)True
B)False
73
As discussed in "Building on Strengths," multigenerational families and intergenerational kinships have played a significant role by:
A)providing a framework for child rearing.
B)developing family relationships.
C)exploring family strengths.
D)preserving and strengthening African American families.
74
According to the author in "Building on Strengths," why is the intergenerational perspective relevant in working with African American Families?
A)It guides the way that African American families structure family dinners.
B)This concept does not really impact the way African American families interact with each other.
C)It explains the challenges growing up in a large family.
D)It brings an awareness of and attention to kinship, intergenerational relationships, and multigenerational families.
75
As reported in "Building on Strengths", functional solidarity is assessed by identification of the "go-to" family members when someone needs assistance.
A)True
B)False
76
As stated in "Daddy Issues: Why Caring for My Father Has Me Wishing He Would Die," America's fastest-growing demographic is the population older than 85, which at 5 million is projected by 2035 to have grown to:
A)6.5 million.
B)7 million.
C)8 million.
D)11.5 million.
77
As expressed in "Daddy Issues: Why Caring for My Father Has Me Wishing He Would Die," the author realized at age 49 that she had become:
A)her mother, her sister, her dog, her cat, but not herself.
B)emotionally sterile.
C)a Kafka character.
D)the embodiment of her fears.
78
As suggested in "Daddy Issues: Why Caring for My Father Has Me Wishing He Would Die," anyone hoping for a kind of Eldercare for Dummies should look for the easy answers in Jane Gross's A Bittersweet Season.
A)True
B)False
79
According to "Recognizing Domestic Partner Abuse," at the center of domestic violence is the issue of:
A)mental illness.
B)anger.
C)control.
D)self esteem.
80
In discussing the demographics of domestic abuse, the author of "Recognizing Domestic partner Abuse" points out that:
A)it is generally limited to the poorly educated.
B)it affects people of all ethnic backgrounds.
C)abusers tend to be socially inept.
D)men and women are equally likely to be victims.
81
As reported in "Recognizing Domestic Partner Abuse," women who were abused as children are at increased risk for being in an abusive relationship as adults.
A)True
B)False
82
According to Riggs in "Role of Foster Family Belonging in Recovery from Child Maltreatment," one of the ways in which children learn resilience is:
A)spending time in the foster care system.
B)through the experience of relationships with stable and nurturing caregivers.
C)through professionals developing a relationship with foster parents.
D)never obtaining a permanent home life.
83
As explained in "Role of Foster Family Belonging in Recovery from Child Maltreatment", what helps a person feel belonging and are a typical part of many families, regardless of their structure or formation?
A)Rituals.
B)Routines.
C)Membership.
D)Friends.
84
As maintained in "Role of Foster Family Belonging in Recovery from Child Maltreatment", when family solidarity among foster parents and children is present, the relationship that is formed never resembles those relationships between biologically related family members.
A)True
B)False
85
As quoted in "Developing Resilient Children and Families When Parents Have Mental Illness," Ungar has said that resilience can be viewed from a social ecological understanding that emphasizes the need to change all of the following, except:
A)social interactions.
B)political biases.
C)environmental structures.
D)the availability of health resources.
86
As cited in "Developing Resilient Children and Families When Parents Have Mental Illness," the poor translation of policy into implementation was emphasized by the Mental Health Council of Australia in its 2005 report titled:
A)Breakdowns.
B)Nobody's Problem.
C)Not for Service.
D)Families at Risk.
87
According to "Developing Resilient Children and Families When Parents Have Mental Illness," in adulthood, up to two-thirds of COPMI can experience psychosocial disorder and/or mental illness.
A)True
B)False
88
As noted in "Children of Alcoholics," the risk of developing alcoholism faced by COAs is best understood as predicted by:
A)genetic factors.
B)environmental factors.
C)an interplay of both genetic and environmental factors.
D)nothing: no reliable predictors exist.
89
As defined in "Children of Alcoholics," executive functioning refers to the ability to:
A)adjust behavior to fit the demands of individual situations.
B)perform fine-motor movements.
C)manage others toward a common goal.
D)make decisions when presented with many options.
90
According to "Children of Alcoholics," more than half of all children in the United States have been exposed to alcohol abuse or dependence in the family.
A)True
B)False
91
As detailed in "Impact of Family Recovery on Pre-Teens and Adolescents," the abstinence sub-stage for an alcoholic is referred to as the "trauma of recovery" because the alcoholic experiences the relief of sobriety and the:
A)overwhelming feeling of regret for the pain caused to the family.
B)fear of what the future holds.
C)utter terror of relapse.
D)lingering physical effects of withdrawal.
92
As presented in "Impact of Family Recovery on Pre-Teens and Adolescents," the Family Recovery Model has two dimensions: time and:
A)domain.
B)recovery.
C)distance.
D)space.
93
According to research detailed in "Impact of Family Recovery on Pre-Teens and Adolescents," adolescents were generally ignored during recovery by their alcoholic and co-dependent parents.
A)True
B)False
94
As explained in "Love But Don't Touch," it is usually the woman in an emotional affair who:
A)breaks the relationship off.
B)avoids any commitment.
C)pushes the relationship from friendship to love.
D)initiates a sexual relationship.
95
As stated in "Love But Don't Touch," the first step in recovery from an emotional affair is:
A)honesty.
B)trust.
C)partnership.
D)contrition.
96
As noted in "Love But Don't Touch," men are usually more involved in these relationships than women.
A)True
B)False
97
As quoted in "Financial Infidelity," New York psychotherapist Bonnie Eaker Weil calls financial infidelity:
A)"the No. 1 relationship wrecker."
B)"a national epidemic."
C)"a typically innocent indiscretion."
D)"a symptom of immaturity."
98
As cited in "Financial Infidelity," Eaker Weil's book Financial Infidelity guides couples to empathetically and constructively talk about finances through the use of what she calls:
A)Clean Slate discourse.
B)Smart Heart dialogue.
C)Safe and Sound conversation.
D)Fair Care interaction.
99
As set forth in "Financial Infidelity," some relationship experts say the consequences of "checkbook cheating" can be as dire as those of an affair.
A)True
B)False
100
As cited in "International Perspectives on Work-Family Policies," Christopher Ruhm's research into paid parental leave is founded on more than two decades of data from:
A)42 U.S. states.
B)16 European countries.
C)4 continents.
D)11 independent studies.
101
As discussed in "International Perspectives on Work-Family Policies," Sasiko Tanaka's study, which reaffirms and expands on Ruhm's, covers 30 years of data, including the period when several significant changes were made in parental leave policies, specifically the years between:
A)1970 and 1975.
B)1980 and 1985.
C)1995 and 2000.
D)2005 and 2010.
102
As reported in "International Perspectives on Work-Family Policies," Ruhm and Tananka both found that even maternity leave without pay or a guarantee of a job at the end of the leave has a significant effect on infant or child mortality rates.
A)True
B)False
103
As pointed out in "Behind Every Great Woman," 2010 Census figures show that one in five fathers serves as the main caregiver for his:
A)newborn children.
B)preschool-age children.
C)preadolescent children.
D)teenage children.
104
As profiled in "Behind Every Great Woman," Leslie Blodgett has spent the past 18 years nurturing a startup company into the global cosmetics empire:
A)PureMinerals.
B)Bare Escentuals.
C)Essentially Yours.
D)Blush Strokes.
105
According to "Behind Every Great Woman," all but one of the 18 women who are currently CEOs of Fortune 500 companies have, or at some point have had, a stay-at-home husban
A)True
B)False
106
The professionals profiled in "Making Time for Family Time" are all:
A)psychologists.
B)attorneys.
C)accountants.
D)military officers.
107
The feeling expressed by Carol Williams-Nickelson, as cited in "Making Time for Family Time," is that there is a strong undercurrent of expectations for women that:
A)they will want to take time off work to have and raise children.
B)they will do significantly better than their mothers in terms of careers.
C)careers need to come first if they want to advance.
D)if they want to climb to the highest echelons, it is better if they remain single.
108
As recounted in "Making Time for Family Time," Captain Jason Prinster and his wife Colleen decided to add movie channels to their cable television service because it is less expensive than taking the whole family out to a movie theater.
A)True
B)False
109
According to "Homeless in the Suburbs," in middle-class suburban Jefferson County, Colorado, school officials say that in the first two months of the 2008 school year, they saw homelessness increase by:
A)12 percent.
B)26 percent.
C)58 percent.
D)100 percent.
110
As quoted in "Homeless in the Suburbs," Laura Flynn, a housing services administrator for a Salvation Army family shelter in an affluent Kansas City suburb, says, "No one knows the real number [of homeless people] in the suburbs because:
A)our government is already overwhelmed by the homelessness in our cities."
B)homelessness in the suburbs is typically a short-term condition."
C)the communities don't want to know."
D)agencies disagree on the definition of homelessness."
111
As reported in "Homeless in the Suburbs," in the 1980s, families with children made up less than 1 percent of the homeless population in the United States; today they are nearly 40 percent.
A)True
B)False
112
As noted in "The Positives of Caregiving: Mothers' Experiences Caregiving for a Child with Autism," in discussing the result of their caregiving experience, all of the mothers said they:
A)lost confidence in themselves.
B)felt personally transformed.
C)blamed themselves for every reversal.
D)had few positive feelings.
113
As reported in "The Positives of Caregiving: Mothers' Experiences Caregiving for a Child with Autism," the study assumed that the mothers involved had a great deal of stress because:
A)they were all over 40 years old.
B)their children all had multiple disabilities.
C)all of their children were eventually placed outside the home.
D)they all had stress-related illnesses.
114
As observed in "The Positives of Caregiving: Mothers' Experiences Caregiving for a Child with Autism," research suggests that the burden of caregiving for children with autism is greater than that of parenting a child with other disabilities.
A)True
B)False
115
As listed in "Support and Empower Families of Children with Disabilities," family support can be demonstrated by:
A)displaying empathy for families.
B)individualizing family participation.
C)recognizing families as experts and build on family strengths.
D)All of the above.
116
According to the author in "Support and Empower Families of Children with Disabilities," special education professionals must have which of the following assumptions?
A)Special education professionals must acknowledge that they have a responsibility to work with and support the child's family, because a child who is at risk places a family at risk.
B)Special education professionals must have extensive training in an academic setting and increase their individual knowledge.
C)Always know more about their student than the parents and other family members.
D)Must only advocate for the child and not the other family members.
117
As observed in "Support and Empower Families of Children with Disabilities", effective problem solving is an essential empowerment skill.
A)True
B)False
118
As set forth in "Children's Provision of Family Caregiving: Benefit or Burden?", the demographic trends that include high divorce rate, lower marriage rate, and increasing numbers of single parents have collectively created:
A)dens of delinquency.
B)the anti-family.
C)care gaps.
D)latchkey neighborhoods.
119
As identified in "Children's Provision of Family Caregiving: Benefit or Burden?", situations involving family dysfunction (such as parental alcoholism or drug abuse), extreme poverty, or parental death or abandonment are those in which one might expect to find children undergoing:
A)selective amnesia.
B)psychosis.
C)regression.
D)parentification.
120
According to "Children's Provision of Family Caregiving: Benefit or Burden?", there is wide consensus that girls routinely provide more family care than boys and begin a year or two earlier.
A)True
B)False
121
As given in "Bereavement After Caregiving," the majority of family members involved in caregiving before death:
A)show one or more signs of clinical depression during the first year after the death.
B)experience an immediate sense of relief, followed by intense feelings of guilt.
C)develop an especially strong sense of grief known as complicated grief.
D)show remarkable resilience in adapting to the death of a loved one.
122
As defined in "Bereavement After Caregiving," a diagnosis of complicated grief disorder requires that the bereaved person:
A)demonstrates intense guilt and self-doubt.
B)has persistent and disruptive yearning and pining for the deceased.
C)exhibits physical as well as emotional symptoms within three to six months of the death.
D)distances himself or herself from family members and refuses to discuss the deceased.
123
According to "Bereavement After Caregiving," nearly 70 percent of the deaths in the United States each year are the result of chronic conditions such as heart disease, cancer, stroke, and respiratory diseases.
A)True
B)False
124
As shown in "Stressors Afflicting Families during Military Deployment," spouses felt the greatest stress:
A)when a deployment was announced.
B)when the deployment took place.
C)during the deployment or absence of the service member.
D)during the reintegration of the returning service member.
125
As described in "Stressors Afflicting Families during Military Deployment," the primary role of the Family Readiness Group is to:
A)provide financial help to families that prove a need.
B)keep families informed and updated during times of deployment, training, or military exercises.
C)serve as grief counselors to families that lose a spouse during wartime.
D)boost the morale of soldiers serving overseas.
126
The author of "Stressors Afflicting Families during Military Deployment" points out that the stress on military families during deployment has been sensationalized
A)True
B)False
127
As noted in "Military Children and Families," programs that try to assist military children and families often focus only on:
A)prevention or reduction of problems.
B)the psychological needs of the mother.
C)the psychological needs of the father.
D)the psychological needs of the children.
128
As pointed out in "Military children and Families," one study found that even during peaceful times, military children and families face:
A)emotional trauma.
B)frequent and often sudden moves.
C)children who are unable to bond with the military parent.
D)no support from extended family.
129
As reported in "Military Children and Families," one study found that adolescents who adapted well during parental deployment showed the ability to put the situation in perspective; positive reframing; the embracing of change and adaptation as necessary; effective coping skills; and good relationships with family, friends, and neighbors.
A)True
B)False
130
The trauma children experience losing a parent in the military, as set forth in "Helping Military Kids Cope with Traumatic Death," can easily be heightened by:
A)attempts to return to a "normal" routine.
B)the grief their remaining parent experiences.
C)how the topic is approached in school.
D)each new instance of military death reported in the media.
131
Developmentally, as explained in "Helping Military Kids Cope with Traumatic Death," young children live in an egocentric world in which they believe:
A)they are responsible for anything that happens.
B)no one will ever leave them.
C)their feelings at the time will last forever.
D)their parents do not have separate feelings of their own.
132
Following the death of a parent, as maintained in "Helping Military Kids Cope with Traumatic Death," children may react in ways that are unpredictable or difficult to understand because their world now seems unsafe and unpredictable.
A)True
B)False
133
As profiled in "A Divided House," Cathy Mannis worked as a legal secretary in order to put her husband through:
A)law school.
B)medical school.
C)the U.S. Naval Academy.
D)film school.
134
As mentioned in "A Divided House," Cathy Mannis and her husband had three children, one of whom suffered from:
A)schizophrenia.
B)Down syndrome.
C)leukemia.
D)autism.
135
As noted in "A Divided House," Cathy Mannis's ex-husband gained custody of their children when she was ill.
A)True
B)False
136
As defined in "Strengthening Fragile Families," a fragile family is a family that:
A)has an absent parent.
B)lacks nearly all acceptable levels of communication.
C)begins when a child is born outside of marriage.
D)lives below the poverty line.
137
According to "Strengthening Fragile Families," social scientists had accumulated little data about non-marital childbearing and its consequences for parents, children, and communities until the:
A)mid 1960s.
B)mid 1970s.
C)early 1980s.
D)late 1990s.
138
As brought out in "Strengthening Fragile Families," nearly 60 percent of mothers who were single at childbirth experienced three or more relationship transitions over the next five years.
A)True
B)False
139
As noted in "Get a Closer Look: 12 Tips for Successful Family Interviews," interviews differ from normal conversation in that:
A)both participants speak and listen.
B)one participant must remain silent.
C)an interview need not be on any particular topic.
D)one participant is seeking specific information from the other.
140
As highlighted in "Get a Closer Look: 12 Tips for Successful Family Interviews," silence in an interview:
A)is an important part of interviewing and can sometimes yield interesting results.
B)wastes the time of both participants.
C)may allow the interviewee to forget what he or she was talking about.
D)makes the interviewer seem forgetful and disorganized.
141
As pointed out in "Get a Closer Look: 12 Tips for Successful Family Interviews," interviews will be more spontaneous and informative if the interviewee is not informed of the interview ahead of time.
A)True
B)False
142
As noted in "Meet my Real Modern Family," if the Defense of Marriage Act were repealed, the author and his partner should have a marriage legally recognized where they lived, so what did they do in order to keep their English marriage legal?
A)Nothing, no matter where they lived their marriage was legal.
B)The author and his partner were married again in Connecticut.
C)The author and his partner petitioned the court.
D)The author and his partner moved to a state where gay marriage was legal.
143
In the article, "Meet My Real Modern Family," the author's partner John had donated sperm to his two friends, what were his legal rights as the biological father?
A)None.
B)John signed legal documents in which he foreswore paternal rights and they foreswore claims to support.
C)John was only allowed visitation and had to pay child support.
D)John had a very close relationship with the mother of the child so no legal intervention was needed.
144
As reported in "Meet My Real Modern Family," a lawyer laid out the advantages of having one woman provide the egg and another the womb, so that neither would have full claim as mother.
A)True
B)False
145
According to "Relative Happiness," family meals can help:
A)parents engage only with each other and not the children.
B)families increase their communication with each other.
C)parents decide whether to home school their children.
D)children feel happy and safer overall.
146
As claimed in, "Relative Happiness," regular rituals and routine can increase the closeness of a family and creates a framework for:
A)communication and respect.
B)love and happiness.
C)elimination of childhood obesity.
D)remembering lost loved ones.
147
As stated in "Relative Happiness," while a family has rituals, such as celebrating every holiday and having dinner together every weekend, they should never make a point of also doing things on the spur of the moment.
A)True
B)False
148
As reported in "The Joy of Rituals," studies on rituals indicate that they:
A)lose value when they are repeated.
B)help children learn what to expect from their environment.
C)have no physiological effect on the brain.
D)are significant in the acts themselves.
149
As noted in "The Joy of Rituals," anthropologists suggest that:
A)no human societies have been found that do not have rituals.
B)only human beings have rituals.
C)rituals are not a human necessity.
D)rituals cause conflict within families.
150
As related in "The Joy of Rituals," research suggests that regular meals with parents provide emotional protection for children from every major risk factor.
A)True
B)False
151
As noted in "Rituals in Relationships," rituals can help maintain a sense of normalcy when other parts of life are in:
A)chaos.
B)routine.
C)bliss.
D)happiness.
152
As pointed out in "Rituals in Relationships," the contextual aspect of rituals tells us:
A)rituals should only be held in the home.
B)what to do and what to expect.
C)the meaning behind an object.
D)rituals are only for religious purposes.
153
As reported in "Rituals in Relationships," the trend has been to mark as many passages as possible.
A)True
B)False
154
As cited in "Goy Meets Girl," Claretian Father Greg Kenny says the way the Catholic Church should deal with the growing number of interfaith marriages is:
A)on a grassroots level, one couple at a time.
B)globally, through the reaffirmation of church dogma.
C)with broad, liberal strokes of change.
D)with a firm stance on excommunication.
155
As profiled in "Goy Meets Girl," Lena and Luke Glover found common ground in their interchurch marriage through the ecumenical charismatic group:
A)People of Praise.
B)Houses of Faith.
C)Followers of One.
D)Seekers of the Shepherd.
156
As reported in "Goy Meets Girl," a 2007 CARA survey on marriage revealed that marrying another Catholic continues to be a high priority for young Catholics.
A)True
B)False
157
As reported in "Where Is Marriage Going?", states that accept same-sex unions include:
A)Oregon.
B)Maine.
C)Delaware.
D)Massachusetts.
158
As noted in "Where Is Marriage Going?", among the Cheyenne, a couple was considered married when:
A)they had a child together.
B)the male kidnapped the female.
C)the male was found in the female's tent in the morning.
D)a bride price was paid.
159
As pointed out in "Where Is Marriage Going?", in the overall perspective of human history, romantic love associated with marriage is a recent development.
A)True
B)False
160
According to "Family Unplugged," 42 percent of children think their parents need to:
A)disconnect when they are at home.
B)allow them more screen time.
C)provide the family with newer digital devices.
D)lighten up about Internet safety.
161
As expressed in "Family Unplugged," for the author, red is the color of all the following, except:
A)love.
B)sunsets.
C)passion.
D)the little blinking light on his BlackBerry.
162
As noted in "Family Unplugged," 59 percent of kids have seen one of their parents use a mobile device while driving.
A)True
B)False





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