President Bill Clinton signed the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, which replaced the old AFDC program with TANF (Temporary Aid to Needy Families). TANF
a. guarantees welfare to all eligible people regardless of the state in which they live.
b. limits welfare support to only two years at a time and for five years in the lifetime of any adult in the household.
c. expanded the food stamp program since it was one of the more successful elements of the earlier welfare program.
d. distinguished between legal and illegal immigrants for the first time allowing assistance and food stamps for legal immigrants but not for illegal immigrants.
b
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Almost every society has established a form of marriage that regulates sexual activity to ensure legitimacy;
A) This example best fits the matrilineal perspective. B) Therefore nuclear families – parents plus children – are the most effective form of family C) Thus families raise only the children that belong to them. D) Marriage between one man and one woman is the only form that ensures this legitimacy.
One well-known intergenerational conflict is between adolescents and their parents. A lesser known conflict that may have increased potential in the future is between
a. children and their grandparents. b. children and their adolescent siblings. c. the young-old and the old-old. d. young/middle-aged adults and older adults.
To whose work does Gilman’s parallel with her main point that social bonds are absolutely essential to mental health in The Yellow Wallpaper?
a. Marx’s formula for capital b. Durkheim’s work in Suicide c. Weber’s verstehen d. Anzaldua’s intersectionality
Which of the following statements is true regarding attitudes about marriage? a. More than 80% of the population believes that marriage is obsolete
b. More whites believes that marriage is obsolete than blacks or Hispanics. c. The younger you are, the more likely you are to believe marriage is obsolete. d. The older you are, the more likely you are to believe marriage is obsolete.