Guided Reading Review CH9
- Due Jul 6, 2014 by 11:59pm
- Points 10
- Submitting a text entry box or a file upload
CHAPTER NINE REVIEW SHEET
1. Briefly summarize the average size of the American family over the past 100 years.
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2. What is the historical explanation for declining U.S. fertility rates?
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3. Why are more highly educated families more likely to have fewer children?
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4. How does the total fertility rate for African-Americans compare to the total fertility rate for whites?
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5. What explanation is offered to explain high fertility rates among African-Americans?
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6. Give two reasons why Hispanics have the highest fertility rate of all racial/ethnic groups.
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7. What does it mean for a society to have a “pronatalist bias?”
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8. Give two examples of how American society has been characterized by “structural antinatalism.”
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9. Identify three positive reasons parents give for having children.
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10. How do children affect marital happiness?
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11. How do men and women differ in their reasons for remaining child-free?
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12. Identify an advantage and a disadvantage to postponing parenthood.
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b. disadvantage –
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13. How do only-children compare with other children emotionally and academically?
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14. What is the traditional double standard of birth control and pregnancy?
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15. What reasons have been offered to explain why over 60% of African American births occur outside marriage?
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16. Identify three problems associated with adolescent pregnancy.
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17. Name three predictors that have been found to correlate with high rates of adolescent pregnancy.
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18. How may sexual abuse in childhood contribute to teenage pregnancy?
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19. How do first trimester abortions impact future pregnancies?
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20. How does having an abortion appear to impact the emotional and psychological health of women?
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21. What is involuntary infertility?
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22. What is the difference between a public adoption and a private adoption?
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