FLHD Exam 3 Questions and Answers
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Family Structure of Minor Children - ✔✔No parents: 4%
Single father: 3%
Single mother: 21%
Step cohabiting: 4%
Step married: 5%
Two biological cohabiting: 3%
Two biological married: 59%
Family structure by race - ✔✔Whites and asians have more two biological married
parents, while blacks have more single mother homes.
polygamy - ✔✔having more than one spouse at a time
polygyny - ✔✔a form of marriage in which men have more than one wife
The most common nontraditional family structure is - ✔✔single parenthood. (28%)
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,Stress for a single mother - ✔✔Financial problems
troubled relationships
demands of parenting
lack of time for rest and self-care
How do single parents deal with stress? - ✔✔Social support. (diapers, babysitting,
money, extra hand, supportive friends and family)
feelings of ________ with social support are more important than the actual ______ of
social support received - ✔✔satisfaction
amount
What contributes to adolescent pregnancies? - ✔✔living in poor neighborhoods,
experiencing school problems or failure, failing to use contraceptives, positive
expectations about being a parent, having few or low aspirations for the future.
ART (assisted reproductive technology) - ✔✔methods used to achieve conception
through artificial means.
ART families - ✔✔Affected by cost of technology to get children, and child effects or
behavior problems.
Top seven countries for international adoptations - ✔✔US
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, China
Ethiopia
Ukraine
Haiti
Congo
Uganda
Russia
Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) - ✔✔A syndrome of developmentally
inappropriate behavior with regard to interpersonal relationships
Formation of same-sex parent families and how their tasks are split. - ✔✔Formed due to
children born in previous heterosexual marriages and reared them as single parent or
same-sex partner, ART or donor insemination, or adoption.
challenges of commuter and military families - ✔✔higher rates of emotional problems,
child maltreatment, high stress, disruptions to family roles and routines, trauma.
cumulative risk model - ✔✔A model depicting the accumulation of separate risks or
problems; when multiple risk factors add up to create negative effects on a child
Children born outside of marriage are likely to have parents who have all but ______. -
✔✔larger extended family
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Family Structure of Minor Children - ✔✔No parents: 4%
Single father: 3%
Single mother: 21%
Step cohabiting: 4%
Step married: 5%
Two biological cohabiting: 3%
Two biological married: 59%
Family structure by race - ✔✔Whites and asians have more two biological married
parents, while blacks have more single mother homes.
polygamy - ✔✔having more than one spouse at a time
polygyny - ✔✔a form of marriage in which men have more than one wife
The most common nontraditional family structure is - ✔✔single parenthood. (28%)
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,Stress for a single mother - ✔✔Financial problems
troubled relationships
demands of parenting
lack of time for rest and self-care
How do single parents deal with stress? - ✔✔Social support. (diapers, babysitting,
money, extra hand, supportive friends and family)
feelings of ________ with social support are more important than the actual ______ of
social support received - ✔✔satisfaction
amount
What contributes to adolescent pregnancies? - ✔✔living in poor neighborhoods,
experiencing school problems or failure, failing to use contraceptives, positive
expectations about being a parent, having few or low aspirations for the future.
ART (assisted reproductive technology) - ✔✔methods used to achieve conception
through artificial means.
ART families - ✔✔Affected by cost of technology to get children, and child effects or
behavior problems.
Top seven countries for international adoptations - ✔✔US
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, China
Ethiopia
Ukraine
Haiti
Congo
Uganda
Russia
Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) - ✔✔A syndrome of developmentally
inappropriate behavior with regard to interpersonal relationships
Formation of same-sex parent families and how their tasks are split. - ✔✔Formed due to
children born in previous heterosexual marriages and reared them as single parent or
same-sex partner, ART or donor insemination, or adoption.
challenges of commuter and military families - ✔✔higher rates of emotional problems,
child maltreatment, high stress, disruptions to family roles and routines, trauma.
cumulative risk model - ✔✔A model depicting the accumulation of separate risks or
problems; when multiple risk factors add up to create negative effects on a child
Children born outside of marriage are likely to have parents who have all but ______. -
✔✔larger extended family
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