Define and discuss skipped-generation households

What will be an ideal response?


The student should indicate that skipped-generation households are those where grandparents are raising their grandchildren due to the death, disability, absence, or incarceration of their adult children. One in ten children in the U.S. is living in a grandparent-headed household.

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Which of the following is true of genetic engineering?

a. Unlike many other forms of environmental pollution, biological pollutants produced from genetic engineering do not reproduce themselves. b. It manipulates the genes of organisms to alter their characteristics in ways that would have occurred naturally at a later stage. c. It opens the door for eliminating characteristics deemed socially undesirable by those in positions of power. d. Unlike many other forms of environmental pollution, biological pollutants produced from genetic engineering are much easier to remove from the ecosystem.

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Larger percentages of adopted children than biological children are poor

a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Setting the significance level at a very extreme cutoff (such as .001 ) increases the chances of

A) getting a significant result. B) rejecting the null hypothesis. C) a Type I error. D) a Type II error.

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In a study with a 3 by 2 design, phi and Cramer’s phi

A) are equivalent. B) are equivalent if phi is divided by 2. C) are unrelated. D) are the inverse of one another.

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