Families unit GCSE Sociology quiz

Dual-earner means...

• Both partners work and earn a wage

• You get a bonus at work

• It is just the male that works

Identify the trend in single parent families

• Increasing

• Decreasing

• Staying the same

Identify the trend in divorce over the last 50 years

• Increasing

• Decreasing

• Staying the same

Identify the trend in marriage over the last 20 years

• Increasing

• Decreasing

• Staying the same.

which is not a way that a family is bonded

• blood

• adoption

• marriage

• being a roommate

How do families serve as a socialization agent?

• they teach the values and norms of society

• they provide economic and emotional security

the average age of marriage today?

• 15-20

• 20-25

• 25-30

• 30-40s

What is the sandwich generation

• generation that is too busy to make a full dinner that they have to make sandwiches instead

• generation caught between the pressures of work and marriage

• generation that has a baby later than normal and thus having to take care of child and their aging parents.

Blended families refer to

• families that have mixed race characteristics

• families that are a result of remarriage which includes "stepfamily" member

• families that are all up in each others' business.