SYG Exam 3 Questions and Answers Solved Correctly
True or False: The total fertility rate is measured by the number of children born to the average woman
in her lifetime. - Answers True
True or False: Infertility is defined as not being able to get pregnant due to irregular or no sexual activity.
- Answers False
Which is not one of the reasons for the decrease in adoption after the 1960s? - Answers Interracial
adoptive families are becoming more common
Nowadays the emotional development of children is considered more important than previously, and a
new type of ideal as an emotional, nurturing companion is becoming more common among fathers. This
ideal is called... - Answers Involved father ideal
True or False: The primary trends of the second transition include delays in marriage and increases in
cohabitation and nonmarital childbearing - Answers True
True or False: Socioeconomic differences in the patterns of the second demographic transition would
lead to greater disparities in children's resources. - Answers True
According to McLanahan's article, which is not one of the patterns for mothers with higher education? -
Answers Partners who commit less hours with their children
According to McLanahan's article, which is not one of the causes of diverging destinies? - Answers
Increase in wage equality
True or False: The crude divorce rate has been increasing since the 1980s in the United States. - Answers
False
True or False: The decrease in the divorce rate during COVID-19 was observed in all states. - Answers
False
Which is not true about the "divorce revolution"? - Answers It contributed to eliminating the
feminization of poverty in the 1980s.
Which is one of the reasons for the decline in the divorce rate during recessions? - Answers Divorce
requires the costs of one spouse moving out.
True or False: The system of care is exclusively determined by within-family interactions - Answers False
True or False: In the past few decades, the US government has mandated employers to provide an
increasingly longer period of paid leave for their employees after the birth of a child. - Answers False
Which is not one of the reasons for the decrease in housework time for married women over the past
half-century? - Answers More household members are available for housework.
, Which is not one of the reasons for the motherhood penalty? - Answers Longer work experience of
women with children
True or False: (Craig & Mullan 2010) In all five countries, mothers spent less time on paid work than
nonmothers. - Answers True
True or False: True or False: (Craig & Mullan 2010) In all five countries, mothers spent more time on
child care than fathers. - Answers True
(Craig & Mullan 2010) According to the results, the gender division of labor among couples with children
was greater in Australia and the US. Which is not one of the factors that can explain these trends? -
Answers Total fertility rate
(Pew Research Center) Which is not true according to the report on the US workforce during COVID-19?
- Answers Among the college-educated, the labor force decline has been greater for women than men
during the pandemic.
Fertility - Answers The number of children born in a society or among a particular group
Total fertility rate - Answers The number of children born to the average woman in her lifetime
replacement fertility - Answers the total fertility rate (TFR) that maintains a stable population size
Marriage is _________ faster than childbearing - Answers Declining
Reasons for unmarried parents (young) - Answers Not ready or not willing to marry; more likely to be
poor
Reasons for unmarried parents (old) - Answers More options (adoption, sperm donor, get pregnant by
man they're not planning to parent with) less likely to be poor
Reasons for unmarried parents (divorced) - Answers Experience and trauma s stopping them from
marrying
Adoptions were __________ half a century ago - Answers Secretive
Why was adoption less common after the 1960s? - Answers Due to the falling number of babies
relinquished by birth parents
(1. unmarried women are more willing and able to parent
2. decline of unintended pregnancies due to birth control
3. fertility treatments)
open adoption - Answers a type of adoption that involves direct contact between the biological and
adoptive parents
True or False: The total fertility rate is measured by the number of children born to the average woman
in her lifetime. - Answers True
True or False: Infertility is defined as not being able to get pregnant due to irregular or no sexual activity.
- Answers False
Which is not one of the reasons for the decrease in adoption after the 1960s? - Answers Interracial
adoptive families are becoming more common
Nowadays the emotional development of children is considered more important than previously, and a
new type of ideal as an emotional, nurturing companion is becoming more common among fathers. This
ideal is called... - Answers Involved father ideal
True or False: The primary trends of the second transition include delays in marriage and increases in
cohabitation and nonmarital childbearing - Answers True
True or False: Socioeconomic differences in the patterns of the second demographic transition would
lead to greater disparities in children's resources. - Answers True
According to McLanahan's article, which is not one of the patterns for mothers with higher education? -
Answers Partners who commit less hours with their children
According to McLanahan's article, which is not one of the causes of diverging destinies? - Answers
Increase in wage equality
True or False: The crude divorce rate has been increasing since the 1980s in the United States. - Answers
False
True or False: The decrease in the divorce rate during COVID-19 was observed in all states. - Answers
False
Which is not true about the "divorce revolution"? - Answers It contributed to eliminating the
feminization of poverty in the 1980s.
Which is one of the reasons for the decline in the divorce rate during recessions? - Answers Divorce
requires the costs of one spouse moving out.
True or False: The system of care is exclusively determined by within-family interactions - Answers False
True or False: In the past few decades, the US government has mandated employers to provide an
increasingly longer period of paid leave for their employees after the birth of a child. - Answers False
Which is not one of the reasons for the decrease in housework time for married women over the past
half-century? - Answers More household members are available for housework.
, Which is not one of the reasons for the motherhood penalty? - Answers Longer work experience of
women with children
True or False: (Craig & Mullan 2010) In all five countries, mothers spent less time on paid work than
nonmothers. - Answers True
True or False: True or False: (Craig & Mullan 2010) In all five countries, mothers spent more time on
child care than fathers. - Answers True
(Craig & Mullan 2010) According to the results, the gender division of labor among couples with children
was greater in Australia and the US. Which is not one of the factors that can explain these trends? -
Answers Total fertility rate
(Pew Research Center) Which is not true according to the report on the US workforce during COVID-19?
- Answers Among the college-educated, the labor force decline has been greater for women than men
during the pandemic.
Fertility - Answers The number of children born in a society or among a particular group
Total fertility rate - Answers The number of children born to the average woman in her lifetime
replacement fertility - Answers the total fertility rate (TFR) that maintains a stable population size
Marriage is _________ faster than childbearing - Answers Declining
Reasons for unmarried parents (young) - Answers Not ready or not willing to marry; more likely to be
poor
Reasons for unmarried parents (old) - Answers More options (adoption, sperm donor, get pregnant by
man they're not planning to parent with) less likely to be poor
Reasons for unmarried parents (divorced) - Answers Experience and trauma s stopping them from
marrying
Adoptions were __________ half a century ago - Answers Secretive
Why was adoption less common after the 1960s? - Answers Due to the falling number of babies
relinquished by birth parents
(1. unmarried women are more willing and able to parent
2. decline of unintended pregnancies due to birth control
3. fertility treatments)
open adoption - Answers a type of adoption that involves direct contact between the biological and
adoptive parents
