Which of the following statements is true of the comparison between married couples and cohabitors?
A. Children born to cohabiting parents are five times more likely than those born to married parents to experience parental separation.
B. Children born to cohabiting couples have less health problems than those born to married couples or to cohabiting couples who marry after the children are born.
C. Cohabiting-parent families spend less than married-parent families on alcohol and tobacco but more on education.
D. Those who cohabit have less health problems and better health behavior than those who are married.
Answer: A
You might also like to view...
Newly born children
a. do possess a sense of self-awareness. b. are able to distinguish between themselves and their environment. c. have no sense of self-awareness. d. both A and B.
Sex and gender are
a. interchangeable terms in sociology. b. collapsed into one category in all known societies. c. different systems of classification but both are important to family experience. d. different systems of classification but only gender is important to family experience because it is a social category.
Although Parreñas’ two samples differed in ______, they were similar in ______.
a. level of education; average age, number of children, and low ability to visit children b. regional origin; average age, salary, and level of education c. average age; legal residency, level of education, and low ability to visit children d. age of children; average age, regional origin, and high ability to visit children
Multiculturalism has received attention in recent years. Use this question to discuss cultural diversity and assimilation in the United States and Europe. Why do some people say that multiculturalism is failing? How is Americanization different than multiculturalism?
What will be an ideal response?