In a "Social Policy Perspective," all of the following were given as reasons for parents to be licensed EXCEPT
A) providing a way to determine parental competence.
B) saving children from neglect and violence.
C) preventing single people from having children.
D) preventing future crime and violence committed by maltreated children.
C) preventing single people from having children. Although a higher percentage of troubled youth come from single-parent rather than two-parent homes, opponents argue that the percentage is not nearly high enough to justify denying licenses to single parents.
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a. a correction formula can be used. b. distractors should be eliminated. c. the number of items should be increased. d. distractors should be increased.
Interactionist theorists note parallels between patterns of early language development and the child's
a. phenotypic expressions of canalized genotypes. b. advances in general cognitive development. c. resistance against syntactical bootstrapping. d. resilience against abuse or neglect.
Women may be attracted by body scents that reflect a man's
A. testosterone levels. B. immune system. C. symmetry. D. vasopressin levels.
Criteria for ______ include a restriction of food, a below-normal body weight, a fear of gaining weight, and a distortion of how body weight is experienced.
a. anorexia nervosa b. bulimia nervosa c. pica d. binge eating disorder