Why does "marriage matter"?
What will be an ideal response?
Marriage provides a buffer against mental health problems like alienation, loneliness, unhappiness, and depression. It helps family members deal with emotional crises. Marriage reduces the rates of poverty for women and children. It increases the likelihood that children will graduate from college and achieve high-status jobs.
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A) baby boomer group B) Silent Generation C) G.I. Generation D) boomerang generation
Which of the following CANNOT be said of the modern American family, according to your text?
A. American families are overworked B. American families have increasing birthrates compared to previous generations, due to increasing standard of living C. More than half of all children who live with a grandparent had no parent present. D. all of these statements can be made about American families
The sociologist responsible for suggesting the connection between history and biography to explain the sociological imagination was ________
A) Talcott Parsons B) Herbert Spencer C) C. Wright Mills D) Emile Durkheim
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
. Latent functions and manifest functions yield the same outcomes in institutions