Family Life MCQs
Family Life MCQs
The following Family Life MCQs have been compiled by our experts through research, in order to test your knowledge of the subject of Family Life. We encourage you to answer these 10+ multiple-choice questions to assess your proficiency.
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1: Efforts to restrict civil rights of LGBTQ people have ______.
A. Been largely overturned by the Supreme Court
B. Mostly focused on parenting rights
C. Been less frequent since the 2013 Supreme Court decision on marriage equality (Obergefell v. Hodges)
D. Gained momentum since the 2013 Supreme Court decision on marriage quality (Obergefell v. Hodges)
2: Compared to heterosexual couples, same-sex couples are ______.
A. Far less likely to adopt children or raise foster children
B. Equally likely to adopt children or raise foster children
C. More likely to adopt children or raise foster children
D. More likely to adopt children, but less likely to raise foster children
3: The feminist perspective on families proposes that families should be studied as whole systems with the lens on the family level because such attention attends to patterns of dominance, subjugation, and oppression in families.
A. True
B. False
4: ______ theory offers many approaches for thinking about families, but presumes that current personal and interpersonal problems are the result of unresolved problems in the family of origin.
A. Social behavioral
B. Choice
C. Strengths
D. Psychodynamic
5: Families in every culture address similar societal needs, but there are many variations in family structure, family customs, and power arrangements.
A. True
B. False
6: Compared to lone mother-headed families, lone father-headed families are ______.
A. More likely to have children removed for neglect
B. Less likely to live with a cohabiting partner
C. Less likely to live at or below the poverty line
D. More educated, and less likely to be white
7: Gay and lesbian families reject most aspects of heterosexually oriented families.
A. True
B. False
8: Which of the following is NOT a type of knowledge needed to practice in a culturally sensitive manner?
A. How to be completely competent in serving a particular group
B. Immigration experiences of a particular group
C. Relationship to the country of origin and residence of a particular group
D. Experiences with oppression for a particular group
9: Which of the following is true about the childlessness trend?
A. It is a decreasingly common family structure.
B. It is a return to a trend seen in the late 19th century.
C. Mothers seem to have more egalitarian views on parenting than childless women.
D. Voluntarily childless women are more likely to be religious and have lower incomes.
10: Spouses of both active-duty soldiers and reservists have reported loneliness, loss of emotional support, role overload, and worry about the safety and well-being of the deployed spouse.
A. True
B. False
11: The ______ model of stress and coping theorizes that to understand whether an event in a family system becomes a crisis, one must understand both the family’s resources and the family’s definition of the event.
A. System
B. Psychodynamic
C. Social behavioral
D. ABC-X
12: If you were trying to get a handle on a family's external sources of stress, conflict, and social support, which tool would be most helpful?
A. Ecomap
B. Genogram
C. Geographic data map
D. Timeline
13: The tool that offers a visual representation of family members and their relationships across generations is the ______.
A. Timeline
B. Genogram
C. Ecomap
D. Geographic data map
14: Froma Walsh cautions that the concept of family resilience should be used to blame families that are unable to rise above harsh conditions by simply labeling them as NOT resilient.
A. True
B. False
15: The family resilience perspective extends the family stress and coping perspective by seeking to identify and strengthen processes that allow families to bear up under and rebound from distressing life experiences.
A. True
B. False
16: The family economic stress model argues that severe economic hardship disrupts family functioning in a way that negatively affects marital quality, parenting quality, and child outcomes.
A. True
B. False
17: It is NOT unusual for stepfamilies to develop conflicts and to feel differing loyalties among different ______.
A. Subsystems
B. Environments
C. Styles of attachment
D. Motivations
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