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Main points of guest lecturer, Dr. Claudia Geist - correct answer ✔✔- Family definitions in US
-Attitudes about parenting and gender
- the Role of marriage
Exclusionist family def - correct answer ✔✔Defines family with marriage as fundamental
Moderate family def - correct answer ✔✔Defines family with children as fundamental
Inclusionist family def - correct answer ✔✔Defines family with quality of relationship as
fundamental (whatever it means to them).
Inclusionist thinking - correct answer ✔✔Same sex marriages define family with _______
thinking.
Exclusionist, moderate, inclusionist - correct answer ✔✔3 empirical categories to define family
in 2003.
Exclusionists - correct answer ✔✔This group of people think that the mother should ALWAYS
take on the parental responsibilities.
True - correct answer ✔✔When determining custody preferences, people believe that girls are
better off with their Mother and for boys it is more even- father 36%, mother 38%, either 26%.
True/false?
, children and parenting - correct answer ✔✔Although there is growing acceptance of gay and
lesbian families, traditional values seem to persist around what topic?
true - correct answer ✔✔True/False: 30% of people think pets make a family, but gay couples
are not family.
Age (more Exclusionists are older), Gender (more Exclusionists are men), Education (more
Exclusionists are less educated), Religious beliefs (more Exclusionists believe the Actual Word). -
correct answer ✔✔What factors play a role in family definitions?
Betty Friedan - correct answer ✔✔She wrote the Feminine Mystique and suggests that women
lost their identity in the homemaker role.
the Feminine Mystique begins with an introduction describing what Friedan called "the problem
that has no name"—the widespread unhappiness of women in the 1950s and early 1960s. It
discusses the lives of several housewives from around the US who were unhappy despite living
in material comfort and being married with children. - correct answer ✔✔What does the
Feminine Mystique refer to?
Starting the second wave of feminism. - correct answer ✔✔What is Friedan's book, the
Feminine Mystique credited with?
Family - correct answer ✔✔A fundamental social group in society typically consisting of one or
two parents and their children. A social institution.
kinship - correct answer ✔✔A relationship by blood or marriage between persons.
marriage - correct answer ✔✔A social contract between two individuals that unites their lives
legally, economically, and emotionally.