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1
According to Dokoupil agencies that receive public funding are forbidden from:
A)asking potential foster/adoptive parents to reflect on their preparation to deal with race related issues.
B)taking race into account when screening potential foster/adoptive parents.
C)requiring potential foster/adoptive parents to undergo race sensitivity training.
D)All of the above.
2
What is the NABSW's stance on transracial adoption?
A)They strongly support it.
B)They support it, but only under certain circumstances.
C)They staunchly oppose it.
D)They have not stated an opinion about it.
3
Buttenwieser argues that if parents are divorcing they should do all of the following EXCEPT:
A)put child's happiness above their own.
B)be flexible.
C)separate activities with the children from the divorced partner.
D)remain focused upon the children.
4
According to Buttenwieser, divorce has a negative impact on the children, but there is one exception to her opinion. That exception is
A)If filing for divorce is a financial burden.
B)if the safety of a spouse or child is in jeopardy.
C)If the marriage can work until the children leave.
D)There is no exception.
5
According to Chris Jeub, about how many households in the United States have children in them that are homeschooled?
A)More than two million.
B)Only 10,000 or so.
C)Fewer than 1 in 1,000.
D)Approximately 50%.
6
Which of the following is a social reason Chris Jeub argues for homeschooling?
A)It causes children to see their parents as the most important people in their lives.
B)It enables parents to watch their children every second of the day.
C)It provides a viable alternative to situations where peer pressure may lead to unwise, unhealthy decision-making—such as abusing drugs or alcohol.
D)It allows parents to assign more chores to their children than they would be able to otherwise.
7
According to Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Wen-Jui Han, and Jane Waldfogel, who believe that mothers who work outside the home have a negative effect on their children, an important limitation of previous research is that none
A)controlled for the quality of the child-care setting in which the children were placed.
B)controlled for the amount of work that mothers actually do.
C)measured the cognitive outcomes of early maternal employment.
D)controlled for the effects of first-year employment separately from the effects of employment later in the preschool years.
8
The main focus of the study conducted by Thomas M. Vander Ven et al., who do not believe that mothers who work outside the home have a negative effect on their children, was
A)delinquency.
B)social skills.
C)cognitive impairment.
D)grades.
9
Brennan used the following quote in his argument supporting education for illegal immigrant children, "Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments. Compulsory school attendance law and the great expenditures both demonstrate our recognition of the importance of education to our democratic society…" What court case was he quoting?
A)San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez
B)Brown v. Board of Education
C)De Canas v. Bica
D)Toll v. Moreno
10
According to Brennan's article, a State cannot realistically determine that any particular undocumented child will in fact be reported until after deportation proceedings have been completed.
A)True
B)False
11
How is biological sex determined?
A)Once a sperm enters an egg, there is a chemical inside the egg that selects an x or a y chromosome, both of which are carried in one sperm.
B)When a sperm tries to enter an egg, the outside layer of the egg cell can "read" whether the sperm carries an x or a y chromosome, and will only allow in the sperm that carries the chromosome that the egg has determined will create a male or a female baby.
C)The male sperm will carry either an x or a y chromosome. The sperm that reaches the egg first is random; if it carries an x chromosome, the baby will be a girl, if a y chromosome, a boy, and if a combination of or no sex chromosome, intersex.
D)The sex of the fetus is not determined until the second trimester of pregnancy.
12
What does "IVF" stand for?
A)In-Vitro Fertilization.
B)Inter-ovulation Fecundity.
C)Internal Verification of Fetal sex.
D)Intra-uterine Vacillation of Fetal tissue.
13
According to the 2008 U.S. Census, _________ grandparents had minor grandchildren living with them
A)2.4 Million
B)5.8 Million
C)6.4 Million
D)8.6 Million
14
According to the Trevaskis and Russell article, grandparents' rights must be protected under law through all of the following except
A)relocation.
B)divorce.
C)illness.
D)death.
15
Why did Flores-Villar come to the United States to live?
A)Employment for his Father
B)Medical Care
C)Mother was caught as a drug runner
D)Take care of his Grandmother
16
During the case of Ruben Flores-Villar v. Unites States of America, The State Department witness identified a number of countries in which legitimation deprived a child of her mother's nationality. Which country granted citizenship to a child only through the father?
A)Jordan
B)Japan
C)Iraq
D)Netherlands
17
How many medical opinions did the Hausers seek about the medical care their son should receive?
A)three
B)four
C)five
D)six
18
What is the core tenet of the Nemenhah life that the Hausers' follow?
A)Medicine men and women have healing powers.
B)No person stands above another.
C)Self-determination.
D)First do no harm.
19
According to the Human Rights Campaign, same-gender couples may want to marry for all of the following reasons, except
A)to have legal protection and security for themselves and any children they may have.
B)to have the social recognition of family, friends, and society at large.
C)to advance their political agenda in order to spite heterosexual couples.
D)to benefit from the emotional and financial structure that legal marriage can afford many couples.
20
According to HRC, why aren't "civil unions" enough for same-gender couples?
A)"Civil union" just doesn't sound as serious or life-long as "marriage."
B)Civil unions must be conducted by a justice of the peace, and many same-gender couples desire a religious ceremony.
C)They are done in private, so that the couple does not receive the same social recognition as people who marry.
D)Civil unions only provide state-level benefits, which are recognized on a state-by-state basis, not the 1000+ federal benefits that marriage offers.
21
The Supreme Court heard the case of Bowers v. Hardwick, in which they ruled that
A)people have a right to engage in sodomy in the privacy of their own home.
B)heterosexuals are allowed to engage in sodomy but homosexuals may not.
C)states are permitted to have anti-sodomy laws.
D)there is no federal jurisdiction over these state laws.
22
The following Supreme Court cases are examples of constitutional protections for nonprocreative sexual activities EXCEPT
A)Griswold v. Connecticut.
B)Eisenstadt v. Baird.
C)Roe v. Wade.
D)Romer v. Evans.
23
According to Carlson and Mero, two events have caused an alienation of humankind from its true nation and real home. One event was the assault of new, family-denying ideas, what was the other event?
A)Divorce
B)Industrialism
C)The war on human fertility
D)Sex education programs
24
According to Carlson and Mero, their platform includes preventing women from obtaining an education, entering jobs, and professions.
A)True
B)False
25
As far as Timothy J. Dailey is concerned, the deficiency of studies on homosexual parenting is due to
A)a reliance upon inadequate sample size.
B)lack of random sampling.
C)lack of anonymity of research participants.
D)all of the above.
26
Dailey's objections to homosexual parent include his view that all of the following exist except
A)homosexual promiscuity.
B)substance abuse among lesbians.
C)high incidence of mental heath problems among homosexuals.
D)lower socioeconomic status of lesbians.
27
According to the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, over a quarter of unwanted pregnancies occur to
A)women in their twenties.
B)women in their teens.
C)women who are married.
D)women who are unmarried.
28
According to the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, how many pregnancies are unwanted each year?
A)One million
B)1.5 million
C)Two million
D)2.5 million
29
Bedley says that two major items must be taken into consideration in deciding if cybersex is cheating. What are these two items?
A)interpersonal dynamics and perception
B)interpersonal dynamics and deception
C)circumstances and perception
D)circumstances and deception
30
Traditionally, whether or not a sexual act is considered cheating is decided by whom?
A)The person engaging in the behavior
B)The person's partner
C)The couple's therapist
D)None of the above.
31
In his article, Grinwis states that online pornography
A)comprises 80% of the content on the internet.
B)skews towards fetish and "extreme" sexuality.
C)is accessed more by teenage boys than girls.
D)All of the above.
32
Which of the following statements is most congruent with Grinwis' argument?
A)Pornography is not harmful for mature teens.
B)Pornography requires abstract processing skills.
C)Pornography is mostly harmless, except in cases of addiction.
D)Pornography affects teenage boys more than teenage girls.
33
According to Tunzi, why were statutory rape laws first enacted?
A)They were a smart political move by a federal government official seeking reelection over 500 years ago.
B)They were created to defend minors (specifically, girls) from older predators (specifically, men).
C)There was a sharp increase in teen pregnancy in the 1950s, and the laws were designed to imprison the men responsible.
D)To dissuade sex before marriage.
34
Why does Tunzi question whether statutory rape laws are effective?
A)Because he, himself, was wrongly accused and imprisoned for statutory rape when he was a young man.
B)Because the arrest rate for statutory rape offenses has not increased at all since the laws were created.
C)Because teenagers do not report rape when it is perpetrated by someone they know.
D)Because all teens are different, and age does not necessarily determine whether someone is able to understand the consequences of a sexual relationship.
35
According to the Isner, Kovaland, and Paul article, 82 percent of teens mentioned MTV's "Teen Mom" as a _________________ for teen pregnancy.
A)catalyst
B)glorification
C)deterrent
D)stereotype
36
According to the Isner, Kovaland, and Paul article, the research shows that there is not a direct link between media and behavior, but there is strong evidence that media does have an influence on attitudes and values.
A)True
B)False
37
According to the Soronen, Vitale, and Haase article, 15 percent of teens have forwarded images to
A)someone they are in a sexual relationship with.
B)someone other than the intended recipient.
C)someone they only know online.
D)someone as a joke.
38
For schools to avoid violating students' Fourth Amendment and Stored Communication Act, before searching a cell phone an administration could do what?
A)Ask for consent from a parent or student.
B)Ask for consent from the phone company.
C)Ask for a school resource officer to search the phone.
D)Ask for a different student to search the phone in question.
39
In his piece, Dyson refers to American culture as being "monogamist." Which of the following is the closest definition to Dyson's explanation of the term?
A)Two people who live in a monogamous relationship.
B)The expectation that all people live in a two-partnered monogamous relationship.
C)A person who is looking to find "the one" or their "soulmate".
D)None of the above.
40
____________ is when one or both people involved in a couple have additional intimate relationships outside of that pair.
A)Group marriage
B)Polyfidelity
C)Polyamory
D)Synergamy







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