Describe the four types of child custody
What will be an ideal response?
The student should assert that there are four types of child custody arrangement in the U.S. First is sole custody, which makes up 81% of all cases. In sole custody, the mother usually has the children and the father has visitation rights. In joint custody (16% of cases), the parents share the children physically and /or legally share in all decision making. In split custody (about 2% of cases), some of the children live with one parent and some live with the other. In third-party custody (about 1% of cases), the children live with someone other than their parents.
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Gerson (cited by Aulette) interviewed men about "negotiating the new terrain of work, family and gender" and grouped these men into general categories including all EXCEPT:
a. Men who reflect a "stalled revolution," who took their breadwinning role very seriously, and expected it to be translated into authority in the home. b. Men who chose autonomy over parenthood, including "rebels" who did not have children, and "estranged fathers" who were not close with their children. c. "Involved fathers," who work to become more integrated into the work of family life, especially the work of raising children. d. "New age traditionals," who claimed egalitarian values but whose behavior reflected traditional roles.
Women typically experience depression and an identity crisis when their youngest child departs from the home
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
The largest single class in American society is the:
a. middle class b. underclass c. upper class d. working class
Which of the following recent political events did Maureen Hallinan, in her presidential address to the American Sociological Association, ask those present to consider?
A. terrorism B. the spread of AIDS C. the collapse of communism D. All of these answers are correct.