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.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Degrowth economics is designed to counter
a. prevailing economic tendency to equate unbridled growth with development b. offer a less fashionable alternative to development c. counter neoliberalism with small-scale development d. support the belief that bigger is always better
If we were interested in how individuals' attitudes about smoking marijuana change from adolescence to adulthood, marriage and parenthood, the most appropriate study design would be
a. longitudinal. b. case study. c. cross-sectional. d. surveys. e. questionnaires.
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.