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Chapter 4- Becoming Parents

Total questions: 26

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

In reference to David Lykken’s requirements for a parenting license described in Chapter 1, He considered adults ready when they were:

a)

of the age of 18

b)

married

c)

employed

d)

without a history of violence

e)

All the above

2.

Christoph Heinicke identifies three psychological qualities of parents that provide “an optimal parenting environment”. Which of the following is incorrect?

a)

(1) parents’ feelings of self-esteem

b)

(2) their capacity for positive, mutually satisfying relationships with others, especially with the partner

c)

(3) their capacity for inflexible problem-solving.

d)

All are correct

3.

Further qualifications for parenthood are as follows:

a)

Healthy Lifestyle

b)

Abstinence from drugs

c)

Knowing how to manage stress

d)

All the above

4.

In the past, the traditional pathway to family formation was:

a)

Completing school-> Marriage -> Finding Work

b)

Completing school-> Finding Work -> Marriage

c)

Marriage -> Completing school-> Finding Work

5.

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.

a)

True

b)

False

6.

A second common pathway was to leave school and go directly to full-time work with no family formation.

a)

True

b)

False

7.

A third pathway was to enter the workforce on a more part-time basis and cohabit with a partner without children.

a)

True

b)

False

8.

Which of the following supports the findings that a young woman is more likely to postpone having a family? If she has:

a)

Many personal and social resources

b)

Negative relationships with her parents

c)

High Self-esteem

d)

Sociable and educated

9.

PART 2: Young women who are educated and resourceful:

a)

Establish satisfying patterns of work.

b)

Establish satisfying patterns of friendships and leisure

c)

Are more likely to rate the relationships as satisfying than those who marry early.

d)

All the above

10.

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.

a)

True

b)

False

11.

Fill in the blank: Women’s and men’s paths are similar, and there is __________ gender equality in their activities than in the past.

a)

Lesser

b)

Greater

c)

Non-existent

d)

None of the Above

12.

Based on research, childlessness does not create long-lasting distress for women who want children but are not able to conceive.

a)

True

b)

False

13.

Unintended births are of concern as mothers are less likely to seek prenatal care and continue habits such as smoking and drinking alcohol.

a)

True

b)

False

14.

Women with college educations, in comparison with women of high school educations and less, are more likely to:

a)

marry by thirty with preference to college-educated men

b)

have greater incomes

c)

stay married

d)

Engage in family planning

e)

All the above

15.

Mothers with high school education or less, in comparison with college-educated women, are more likely to cohabit with the father.

a)

True

b)

False

16.

Births to unmarried mothers are twice as likely for African American women and Latina women as for European American women.

a)

True

b)

False

17.

Many low-income mothers believe childbearing can occur in the present, and there is no stigma to having a child outside of marriage.

a)

True

b)

False

18.

Select all that applies- When mothers have unwanted children, they are:

a)

Less happy

b)

More prone to depression

c)

Experience more difficulty rearing

19.

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.

a)

True

b)

False

20.

Investing in expecting families would require:

a)

making healthy foods available in all neighborhoods

b)

effective treatment programs available for substance-using mothers

c)

effective screening and treatment programs for parents with psychological problems

21.

Unlike most parents, who have nine months of preparation for parenthood, parents who have premature births are often plunged into parenthood in unpredictable ways.

a)

True

b)

False

22.

A one-time intervention with mothers whose babies were in intensive care focused on:

a)

A. Identifying mothers’ sources of stress

b)

B. Explaining the emotional upheavals

c)

C. Not identifying support system

d)

A & B only

e)

A Only

23.

What parents can do to ease the transition into parenting?

a)

Devise a schedule for housework

b)

Nurturing the in-law's relationship

c)

Address unresolved issues

24.

Which of the following is TRUE regard the timing of children:

a)

the timing depends on the psychological qualities of parents rather than their age

b)

Does not influence parent-child relationship

c)

can affect a child’s later adjustment, in a case of immature parents

25.

Which of the following are not dimensions underlying a parent's transition to parenthood?

a)

balancing individuality and mutuality

b)

No division of labor

c)

positive attitudes

d)

forming a co-parenting alliance

26.

THIS QUIZ WAS :

a)

Great

b)

Easy Peasy

c)

A walk-over!

d)

Fun

e)

None of the above