Name three key areas of ambiguity regarding stepfamilies. What are other potential areas of ambiguity? Share an example from your own life, a friend’s life, or media.

What will be an ideal response?


May include the following:
stepparents custody/visitation rights after a partnership ends, financial responsibility of stepparents, inheritance rights when a stepparents dies.

Sociology

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Haenfler points out that many members of the straight edge movement may be seen as having conflicting values. Which of the following best illustrates this contradiction in their value system?

a. they advocate no smoking of illegal drugs, but partake in the consumption of tobacco. b. they believe in no sex before marriage, but many have casual sexual affairs anyway. c. they advocate clean living, but they often litter and do not clean up the environment after their concerts. d. they state that they are antisexist, but the subculture is focused on a male-centered ideology.

Sociology