True/False Quiz

Please answer all questions


1	The United States, at 26.3 percent, has a higher rate of child poverty than the United Kingdom, Poland, Germany, or Ireland.
		A)	True
		B)	False


2	The style of parenting that produces the most socially competent children is the authoritative style.
		A)	True
		B)	False


3	The percentage of children living in poverty in the United States has seen a dramatic decline from the 1960s to the 1990s.
		A)	True
		B)	False


4	It is more common among poor black children than among poor white children to be raised by a grandmother.
		A)	True
		B)	False


5	Recent studies suggest that fathers do have significant effects on children's development, but that these effects are weaker than the effects that mothers have on children.
		A)	True
		B)	False


6	According to the author, "children in the middle" have experienced a great improvement in their well-being since the 1960s.
		A)	True
		B)	False


7	The Middletown studies suggest that middle and working class parents are both more likely to place less emphasis on the value of strict obedience in the 1970s as compared to the 1920s.
		A)	True
		B)	False


8	Unemployment and poverty are factors that can prevent parents from successfully socializing their children.
		A)	True
		B)	False


9	Children were classified in a study by economists as having poor prospects for adulthood if they had an unmarried mother with a college degree and a family income below the poverty line.
		A)	True
		B)	False


10	Cherlin concludes that having parents who work outside the home causes significant harm to children, including exposing them to unwed pregnancies and increased deaths by suicide and homicide.
		A)	True
		B)	False

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