chapter 12

Question 1

care work

Answer 1

Another type of unpaid work that involves taking care of others, including children, parents, and spouses

Question 2

child abuse and neglect

Answer 2

Includes any violent act or lack of action that would prevent a violent act against a child

Question 3

cohabitation

Answer 3

unmarried but sexually or romantically involved people living together

Question 4

elder abuse

Answer 4

The physical, emotional, or sexual maltreatment of older adults

Question 5

family structure

Answer 5

Refers to the people who compose a family and their relationships to one another. An example is parents and their children.

Question 5

homogamy

Answer 5

marrying those who are educationally and economically similar to ourselves

Question 6

household labor

Answer 6

The (usually unpaid) work that individuals perform to keep their household functioning

Question 6

intensive mothering

Answer 6

An ideology of mothering that maintains that mothers must be child-centered and intensely involved in their children’s lives

Question 7

intimate partner violence (IPV)

Answer 7

Violence that takes places among those currently or formerly in a romantic relationship. It does not require that partners share a household, and it includes physical violence, threats, coercion, isolation, and stalking.

Question 8

marriage decline

Answer 8

the significant drop in marriage rates

Question 9

stratified reproduction

Answer 9

The valuing of some women’s fertility and the devaluing of other women’s fertility. The state discourages some categories of people—such as poor women and racial/ethnic minority women—from reproducing through policies designed to deter, punish, or monitor childbearing.

Question 10

work-family conflict

Answer 10

When the demands of work make it difficult to meet caregiving obligations and vice versa