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Chapter 9 Practice Quiz
Families
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Which is NOT one of the common categories of family stress?
Major life transitions
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Chronic stressors
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Occasional stressors
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Major upheavals
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Economic stability
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Who faces acculturative stress?
People who are native to a country
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Immigrants
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People who work in stressful corporate jobs
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Tourists
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Students
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In a family of immigrants, who will find it the easiest to become accustomed to new social/cultural norms?
Teenagers
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Adults
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Seniors
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Children
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Everyone finds it easy to adopt to new norms
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What is the idea of spillover?
Stress from one's marriage spills over into work
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People who can't concentrate on their work
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People who have a mental illness suffer from extra stress due to a lack of accessible work environments
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Stress from work and money spill over into one's marriage
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People who have difficulty with inter-personal communication
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What type of family is the fastest growing union today?
Polyamorous
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Homosexual
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Heterosexual
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Gender non-binary
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Common law
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What does it mean to cohabitate?
When a person is living with someone of the opposite sex but is not legally married
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Any same-sex couple who is living together is considered cohabitating
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A married couple of opposite or same sex living together
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A married couple who does not live together
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When a person is living with someone of the opposite or same sex, but is not legally married
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How many same-sex couples are married in Canada?
One-eighth
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One-quarter
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One-third
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One-half
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Three-quarters
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Which minority group did the residential school system target in Canada?
Chinese
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All immigrants
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French Canadians
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Indigenous
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The Amish community of Nova Scotia
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Which is NOT an effective solution to family violence?
More programs that try address abuse directly (for example, civil restraining orders)
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Treatment aimed at reducing alcohol and drug abuse
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Culturally appropriate resources for minority groups to reach out to
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More support for working parents with small children
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Personal violence needs to be viewed less as a personal issue and more as a social issue
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How many more times likely is a transgender person to experience intimate partner violence than the general population?
Transgender people do not experience intimate partner violence
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A quarter as likely
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Half as likely
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Just as likely
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Twice as likely
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Single mothers and married mothers face the same amount of stress.
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A teenager or child's mental health is not affected by how long they live in poverty growing up.
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Studies show that parental leave has no noticeable effect on a child's health and development.
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Children of same sex couples have equal levels of well-being to that of heterosexual parents.
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In 2016, about one in eight same-sex couples had children.
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In Canada, it is illegal for same-sex couples to get married.
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Heterosexual couples remain the most common family type. 3
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Spousal violence is only a problem in heterosexual couples.
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False
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Transgender people are two or more times more likely to experience intimate partner violence as is the general population.
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False
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In the family home, men and women do about the same amount of housework.
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False
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