How are family-member loyalty, bonding, and cohesion different in a stepfamily when compared to a typical nuclear family?
What will be an ideal response?
In the typical stepfamily, there is very little loyalty, bonding, and cohesion among merging families. This is a much more fragile situation than in a nuclear situation, which may or may not improve over time. Cohesion and loyalty are generally much stronger through the family life cycle in a nuclear family, usually transcending traumas.
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What will be an ideal response
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A. digitally enabled discrimination B. institutional discrimination C. racial profiling D. White flight
The informal role for a member of a team, that involves responsibility for intimidating, provoking, and injuring opponents, is called ____
a. terminator b. intimidator c. enforcer d. decider e. liquidator
Research in the United States and other countries has consistently shown that people in the lower classes have
A. higher rates of mortality and disability. B. lower mortality rates. C. lower rates of cancer and heart disease. D. both higher rates of mortality and disability and lower rates of cancer and heart disease.