MARRIAGE AND FAMILY TEST REVIEW

Tara lives with her father, stepmother, and stepmother’s children from a previous marriage. What type of family does she live in?

• Nuclear

• Matriarchal

• Blended

• Extended

• Patriarchal

How can blended families be complicated?

• Grandparents may have difficulties letting their children be the head of the household

• The step family pets can revolt and show dislike to the addition of new and unfamiliar family members.

• A mother or father might have children with multiple spouses bringing stepchildren into the relationship

• Blended families living together can have scheduling conflicts due to grandparents being involved

What was the first state to legalize same sex marriage?

• Florida

• New York

• California

• Massachusetts

• New Jersey

Blended families lead to ________________________.

• Non-existent relationships between ex-spouses

• Financial Issues

• Complicated family relationships

• Child abuse

Which of the following people would study the impact of cohabitation on marriage?

• Symbolic Interactionsit

• Conflict Theorist

• A Functionalist

• A Psychologist

All of the following are characteristics of successful marriages EXCEPT ____________________.

•   Agreement with spouse on aims and goals

•   Agree marriage is designed to create children

•   Believe their spouse has grown more interesting over the years

• Believe that marriage is sacred

People who have successful marriages believe ____________________.

• Marriage is sacred

•   Marriage should only take place through Christianity, Judaism, or Islam

•   Domestic violence is bad

What is serial fatherhood?

• A pattern of parenting where a father decides to live with his own father after having children

• A father begins to enter into a secret life of crime.

• A father only identifies by his serial social security number and not his given birth name.

• A pattern of parenting where a father reduces contact with his children after divorce and acts as a father for the children woman he remarries

Which of the following is NOT considered a dark side of marriage?

•   Child abuse

•   Divorce

•   Spouse battery

Couples who cohabitate before marriage, the divorce rate is ________________ than couples who do not.

•   Lower

•   About the same

• Higher