Chapter 11 Practice Quizzes

. Married women, especially mothers of small children, do more unpaid work in the home than married men do. With more women in the paid labourforce, there is an imbalance in conjugal roles. According to sociologists, women experience ________:

. Which term refers to marrying outside of one's group?

. What type of household consists of two or more adults who are related but not married to each other and hence could reasonably live separately?

. Which term is used to describe the number of marriages in a given year per 1000 in a population?

. What age group is most likely to be living alone?

. Which region in Canada has the highest rate of teenage mothers?

. The opposite of the family dynamic known as the 'empty nest' is

. Polgyny is the practice of

. A program of separating large numbers of Indigenous children from their families and home communities was called:

. Sexual sterilization of a cultural group is a form of what?

. "Boomerang kids" return home after going away to college or university.

. The high number of people living alone in Quebec has to do with the various sociocultural and economic developments that occurred in Quebec during the Quiet Revolution.

. Eugenics has been called scientific racism and an instrument of scientific classism.

. Canada makes up for its low fertility rate with high levels of immigration.

. The term "matrilineal" refers to family laws that favour women.

. Ontario has the highest cohabitation rate in Canada.

. The cohabitation rate in the United States has always been higher than it is in Canada.

. There are more divorces overall, so this means the rate is increasing in all age groups studied.

. The United States is where the majority of child marriages take place between Christians.

. Statistics Canada stopped tracking marriage rates in 2011.

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