chapter 1

Question 1

family functions

Answer 1

-raise children responsibly

-providing economic and other practical support

-offering emotional security

Question 2

colonial american families

Answer 2

families were businesses, schools, churches, and correctional health and welfare institutions

Question 3

industrialized and urban american families

Answer 3

-separate work and home life emerged; waves of immigration create more racial/ethnic diversity

-emergence of poor, working, middle, and upper classes

Question 4

post modern american families

Answer 4

-many different institutions that serve the family; no “typical” family

-emphasis on work/life balance, flexible work to accommodate family

Question 5

extended family

Answer 5

whole kinship groups (parents, children, grandparents, and other relatives)

Question 6

nuclear family

Answer 6

breadwinner husband, homemaker wife, and children

Question 7

postmodern family

Answer 7

many family forms (single-parent, blended, stay-at-home fathers, cohabitating couples, no typical family)