Building Healthy Relationships

With which type of friends do you keep your personal feelings secret?

• Casual Friends
• Close Friends
• Personal Friends 
• Opposite sex friends

Which is a main factor that accounts for changes in the American family structure?

• couples are choosing to have more children
• high divorce rate
• more men are stay at home dads
• more men work outside the home

Which statement is a good example of assertiveness?

• “I’m not sure if I will have time to do your homework and mine before I go to bed.”

• Okay, I’ll do your homework, but this is the last time."

• We each have an assignment to complete. To learn the information you need to complete the work. I don't feel comfortable doing your homework.”

• You are out of your mind if you think I am going to do your homework for you!”

What would be a good tip for someone trying to make new friends?

• Treat only the people you know with respect.
• Spend time with people whom you already have a close relationship.
• Join groups that share your values or offer activities you like.
• Pretend you enjoy similar things so you’ll be liked by people.

Saying, “When you tease me in front of people about my new haircut, you embarrass me” is an example of which type of communication?

• assertive
• aggressive
• cooperation
• passive

Identify the positive peer pressure situation.

• Your friends beg you to go with them to a block party promoting teen involvement in cleaning up the neighborhood park.
• Your friends found a wallet on the ground at the park and ask you to go with them to the mall to spend the money found in the wallet.
• You encourage your friends to go to a college party with you because your older brother can sneak everyone inside.
• You take fun pictures at the beach and your friends encourage you to post your bikini pictures online to share with people you don’t know.

Which family unit can have a grandfather as the head of the household?

• foster family
• nuclear family
• blended family
• single-parent family

A disagreement about beliefs, ideas, or interests is known as what?

• mixed messages
• conflict
• empathy
• abstinence

An effective strategy for using refusal skills with your friends when they invite you to sneak out with them to go drink alcohol at the park would be to

• stick to your decision to stay safe by staying home alone.
• volunteer to drive if they have too much to drink even though you have no license.
• let them hang out and drink at your house so you can monitor how much they drink
• have fun with them at the park, but call your big sister to pick everyone up in case no one is able to safely drive.

The behaviors and attitudes that are socially accepted as either masculine or feminine, and vary from culture to culture are known as _____.

• friendship.
• compromise.
• gender roles.
• peer pressure.