Researchers compared the levels of hunger and malnutrition in poverty-stricken areas of the United States before and after the implementation of nutrition and food stamp programs. They concluded that the programs
a. actually made the situation worse because it encouraged people to become dependent on government handouts which were discontinued when the funding ran out halfway through the fiscal year.
b. had not made much difference in hunger and malnutrition because of bureaucratic misapplication -- too much aid was given to people who did not really need it and too little was given to people who really did need it.
c. helped many and reduced hunger and malnutrition by about half but needed to be expanded to help more.
d. virtually eliminated hunger and made it difficult to find much evidence of the malnutrition identified in the earlier study.
d
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A. Crisis B. Coping C. Family stress D. Resiliency
Jamie was born male but self-identifies as a woman. In order to make her body look more feminine, she had surgery and took female hormones in order to make her body look more feminine. Jamie is a(n) ________ woman.
A. intersexed B. transsexual C. transgender D. bisexual
Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. Another term for stepfamily is blended family. 2. A “mutual child” is a stepchild who lives with the remarried couple more than half the time. 3. Whites are least likely to live in a stepfamily, given their size in the population. 4. It is likely that the negative stereotypes of the “wicked stepmother” are rooted in the stepfamilies of pre-Industrial society. 5. The model for how to be a stepparent is ambiguous and poorly defined.
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What will be an ideal response?