Font size
WorksheetsChapter 4- Becoming Parents
Total questions: 26
Worksheet time: 15mins
In reference to David Lykken’s requirements for a parenting license described in Chapter 1, He considered adults ready when they were:
of the age of 18
married
employed
without a history of violence
All the above
Christoph Heinicke identifies three psychological qualities of parents that provide “an optimal parenting environment”. Which of the following is incorrect?
(1) parents’ feelings of self-esteem
(2) their capacity for positive, mutually satisfying relationships with others, especially with the partner
(3) their capacity for inflexible problem-solving.
All are correct
Further qualifications for parenthood are as follows:
Healthy Lifestyle
Abstinence from drugs
Knowing how to manage stress
All the above
In the past, the traditional pathway to family formation was:
Completing school-> Marriage -> Finding Work
Completing school-> Finding Work -> Marriage
Marriage -> Completing school-> Finding Work
The most common pathway between eighteen and twenty-three was to continue schooling and then transition to the workforce full-time with no family formation.
True
False
A second common pathway was to leave school and go directly to full-time work with no family formation.
True
False
A third pathway was to enter the workforce on a more part-time basis and cohabit with a partner without children.
True
False
Which of the following supports the findings that a young woman is more likely to postpone having a family? If she has:
Many personal and social resources
Negative relationships with her parents
High Self-esteem
Sociable and educated
PART 2: Young women who are educated and resourceful:
Establish satisfying patterns of work.
Establish satisfying patterns of friendships and leisure
Are more likely to rate the relationships as satisfying than those who marry early.
All the above
Young women who have children alone/ married/ in cohabiting relationships; have fewer resources or plans; less education and less work experience and value the child(ren) as social resource.
True
False
Fill in the blank: Women’s and men’s paths are similar, and there is __________ gender equality in their activities than in the past.
Lesser
Greater
Non-existent
None of the Above
Based on research, childlessness does not create long-lasting distress for women who want children but are not able to conceive.
True
False
Unintended births are of concern as mothers are less likely to seek prenatal care and continue habits such as smoking and drinking alcohol.
True
False
Women with college educations, in comparison with women of high school educations and less, are more likely to:
marry by thirty with preference to college-educated men
have greater incomes
stay married
Engage in family planning
All the above
Mothers with high school education or less, in comparison with college-educated women, are more likely to cohabit with the father.
True
False
Births to unmarried mothers are twice as likely for African American women and Latina women as for European American women.
True
False
Many low-income mothers believe childbearing can occur in the present, and there is no stigma to having a child outside of marriage.
True
False
Select all that applies- When mothers have unwanted children, they are:
Less happy
More prone to depression
Experience more difficulty rearing
The National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities uses the term ART to refer to the more advanced methods of assistance in which eggs and sperm are handled outside the body.
True
False
Investing in expecting families would require:
making healthy foods available in all neighborhoods
effective treatment programs available for substance-using mothers
effective screening and treatment programs for parents with psychological problems
Unlike most parents, who have nine months of preparation for parenthood, parents who have premature births are often plunged into parenthood in unpredictable ways.
True
False
A one-time intervention with mothers whose babies were in intensive care focused on:
A. Identifying mothers’ sources of stress
B. Explaining the emotional upheavals
C. Not identifying support system
A & B only
A Only
What parents can do to ease the transition into parenting?
Devise a schedule for housework
Nurturing the in-law's relationship
Address unresolved issues
Which of the following is TRUE regard the timing of children:
the timing depends on the psychological qualities of parents rather than their age
Does not influence parent-child relationship
can affect a child’s later adjustment, in a case of immature parents
Which of the following are not dimensions underlying a parent's transition to parenthood?
balancing individuality and mutuality
No division of labor
positive attitudes
forming a co-parenting alliance
THIS QUIZ WAS :
Great
Easy Peasy
A walk-over!
Fun
None of the above
