Which of the following is not true of divorce?
a. Industrialization and urbanization have undermined traditional roles of marriage.
b. Divorce is legally acceptable universally.
c. The rate of divorce in the US is rapidly decreasing.
d. Laws have made it easier to get a divorce.
e. Economic ties holding a family together have weakened, thus causing more divorces in India.
ANS: B
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First-cousin marriage is prohibited in 40 states in the United States
a. True b. False
A key feature of language that helps explain anthropologists' continued interest in studying it is that it
A. is always changing. B. enables us to compare human and nonhuman primate linguistic grammars. C. helps them distinguish between the more and less evolved human races. D. rarely changes, so it provides a good window into linguistic uses of the past. E. tells us a lot about the present, although nothing about the past.
Anthropologists only study contemporary, living peoples
Indicate whether the statement is true or false