What role does genetics play in turning a person into an alcoholic?
What will be an ideal response?
People with an alcoholic parent are as much as six times more likely to become alcoholic themselves, even when raised apart from their biological parents in a nonalcoholic family. However, one very important point is that 60 to 65 percent of alcoholics do not exhibit this genetic link, and some alcoholics with the genetic link only became heavy drinkers under certain environmental conditions.
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The right to a fair trial is an example of a ______ right.
A. civil B. social C. political D. economic
Being respected by the wider community is an example of a(n) _____ need
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Exhibits and museums that show early humans and other animals arranged with a dominant male doing most of the work in a family unit composed of himself, a female, and children are best understood as __________
A) historically accurate reflections of family arrangements in the human and animal worlds B) historically accurate reflections of family arrangements for humans, but not for animals C) accurate only for animals, because humans sometimes depart from this nuclear family model D) efforts to rewrite science and history to make the nuclear family seem normative
The legitimacy crisis is doubly expressed in the refusal/inability of the developing agencies to _______ and the refusal/inability to refocus on how neoliberal development ________
a. address global inequality; aids the rich more than the poor b. develop sustainable policies; programs debt relief c. address environmental challenges; sustainable development d. address fiscal austerity; exacerbates inequality