Aulette reported that the California Supreme Court broke new legal ground in 2005 regarding parenting by lesbian or gay couples. The Court
a. granted full legal parental status to same-sex partners after a breakup with the same rights and responsibilities as heterosexual parents.
b. declared that lesbian and gay couples have adoption rights equal to heterosexual couples.
c. asserted that a heterosexual parent may have custodial preference over a homosexual parent but may not deny visitation to the latter.
d. upheld a new law providing for same-sex civil unions with most but not all rights of marriage regarding parenting privileges and obligations.
a
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The chapter-opening story of sexual activity among students at the high school in Jefferson City, Missouri, shows__________.
A. that about half of the sexually active students were "chained together" through a few sexual partners
B. only about 15 percent of the students were sexually active
C. almost all of the sexually active students had multiple partners
D. about a third of the sexually active male students had same-sex partners
A “young” country, like Sudan, is likely to invest resources in __________ programs.
A) maternal welfare B) retirement C) social security D) assisted living
To satisfy the requirement of independent random sampling, the researcher
a. must use only non-probability sampling b. may randomly select cases from one list of the population, then subdivide that sample according to the trait of interest c. may randomly select an entire neighborhood, then select any member of each family in that neighborhood d. must select only very small populations
The body of knowledge obtained using methods based upon systematic observation is called a(n)
A. verstehen. B. science. C. theory. D. ideal type.