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Who out of the following is most likely to delay marriage?

A) Yolanda, a single female who is a Harvard professor, has a Ph.D. in chemistry, and makes $180,000 per year.
B) Katie, a single mother who lives in public housing and uses her food stamps and cash assistance to meet most of the needs of herself and her 5-year-old son.
C) Mateo, a male who works the day shift as a technician in a medical laboratory and overnight shift as a security guard at a power plant.
D) Zeke, who teaches math at the local high school and lives with his boyfriend, Josiah.

E) A) and C)
F) B) and D)

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Sharon and Tabitha are cohabitating partners who have been together for nine years. Sharon has a spinal cord disability due to a car accident 12 years ago. They have decided to continue cohabitating, instead of getting married, because Sharon receives Social Security Disability benefits and would see a decrease or loss of benefits once she and Tabitha marry. This is an example of bias in favor of

A) lesbian and gay couples
B) cohabitation
C) marriage
D) single mothers

E) C) and D)
F) B) and D)

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What type of custody involves the parents moving in and out of the house during their time of visitation, instead of the children moving?

According to research, married women are more likely to keep their last names if they

Which factor has been associated with a reduced likelihood of cohabitation?

Currently, approximately what percentage of children in the United States live in a single-parent household?

The increasing rate of boomerang kids can be attributed to many factors, including carrying increased student loan debt, the decision to marry later in life than in previous generations, and being

When compared to families in the real world, fictional media families are

A nuclear family, defined as a traditional image of a family, pictures a heterosexual couple living together with their

"Bird's nest" custody is best suited for

Fictional media families, when compared to families in the real world, tend to be

In the Harry Potter series, Charlie Weasley, older brother of Ron, lives in Romania training dragons. The rest of his family remains in England, working and attending school. What term best describes this family type?

Families encourage us to distinguish between our private family life and the public world that exists outside of our home, providing us with a set of rules that help us to think about how we are related to each other and how we should act in a given social situation. In this way, family is an example of

Who is most likely to be a single parent in the United States today?

In the Harry Potter series, Harry goes to live with his maternal aunt, Petunia, her husband, and their child (Harry's cousin) . What term best describes this family type?

The birth rate in the United States has increased the fastest among women

Actors Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have several children together: Maddox (who was adopted by Jolie in Cambodia) , Zahara (who was adopted by Jolie in Ethiopia) , Shiloh (their first child together) , Pax (who Jolie adopted from Vietnam) , and their biological twins Knox and Vivienne, who were born in France. Pitt legally adopted Maddox and Zahara after being with Jolie for a year. However, when Pitt wanted to co-adopt Pax with Jolie after being together for almost three years, he was denied as Vietnam adoption law does not allow for unmarried couples to co-adopt. This is an example of bias in favor of

Prior to 1983, when no-fault divorce laws became common among most states in the U.S., a person needed to prove that their spouse was at fault in order to divorce. The kinds of behaviors that could result in divorce included

Young children learn about ___________ by watching the different clothes their parents wear, who does the cooking, who does the cleaning, and the different expectations for sons and daughters in the family.

Today, approximately what percentage of young adults in their 20s and 30s live with their parents?