What types of diversity can you expect to find in the make-up of a family unit?
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER: As a caregiver you can expect families to represent a great deal of diversity: single parent, grandparent as head of household, gay/lesbian parents, adoptive families with Caucasian parents and Asian children.
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a. ?dropped out of high school. b. ?went on to college. c. ?were involved in criminal activity. d. ?came from low socioeconomic backgrounds.
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a. have lower self-esteem and stronger feelings of inadequacy. b. excel academically. c. be more popular with girls than boys. d. All of these answers.
One of the criticisms that has been leveled at research that examines the similarity between twins separated at birth is that
A. there are so few cases of separated twins that this research cannot really tell us very much about the relative influence of genetics and environment. B. in many cases the twins were not really separated because they were adopted by relatives or lived close to each other while growing up. C. we do not yet have statistical techniques that allow us to separate the effect of genetics from the effect of the environment. D. many of the reports of great similarity between separated twins has been exaggerated and these reports are not supported by data.