QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
The 2007 fertility rate of 69.5 births for every 1000 women between 15 and 44 reflects: - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅4.3 million births in the US-the highest total recorded to date.
Fertility rates are highest among: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Mexican Americans
The largest minority group in the US is: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Hispanics
The highest fertility rates are found among: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Women with the highest level of
education.
The number of births to unmarried women in 2010 was: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅More then twice as
high as the number in 1980.
The term "child-free" is used to describe: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A marriage where partners do not
choose to have children.
About what % of the US population of reproductive age experience infertility? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅14%
Compared to mothers, women who are child-free: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Are less likely to be from a
dual-career marriage.
Women who choose to be child-free are generally: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Well educated and career
oriented.
Which of the following are LEAST likely to have a future without children? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Hispanic women.
,Child-free women and child-free men: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Are perceived negatively by society, but
child-free women are perceived more negatively then child-free men.
A typical child born in 2011 and raised to age 18 will cost approximately: - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅$169,000 to $389,000.
Teen mothers are: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅More at risk of anemia than other mothers who have their
first child between ages 30-35.
Older mothers are: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅At risk for hypertension than are mothers between ages 20-
40.
Pregnancy rates remain highest for women in their: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Twenties.
About what % of births to women age 15 to 44 is unplanned? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅37%.
Comparing planned and unplanned pregnancies, we find which of the following: - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Unplanned pregnancies present greater risks due to lack of readiness or planning.
During pregnancy: (1) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Couples should remember that there are no rules about
sexuality during pregnancy.
During pregnancy: (2) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Women tend to lose interest in sexual activity in the first
trimester.
During pregnancy, men tend to : - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Be more involved after the child is born if they
were involved prenatally.
The _________ trimester may be the time of the greatest difficulties in daily living. - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Third.
, Of the thousands of American babies <1 year old who die each year, up to 1/3 of these deaths could be
prevented if mothers were given: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Adequate health care.
The impersonal, assembly-line quality of hospital birth is: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Criticized by many.
An episiotomy is a: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Surgical procedure to enlarge the vagina opening by cutting
through the perineum toward the anus.
Feminists critic contemporary childbirth for which of the following reasons? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅Many of the medical interventions are unnecessary.
According to the "Listening to Mothers" surveys, most mothers felt: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Quite
positive about their birthing experience.
Feminists assert that most pregnant women: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Are essentially healthy and
require minimal medical management during the birth process.
The rate of infant mortality in the US is: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Far higher than in most of the
developed world.
Most women form a deep attachment to their children: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Before birth.
Women who lose a pregnancy or young infant generally experience ____________in the initial stage. -
CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Shock and disbelief.
Which of the following is a characteristic of adoptive families? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Adopted
children are ore likely to live in two-parent households.
With respect to adoption, we find: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Views are mixed about the benefits of open
adoption.