INTRODUCTION TO SOCIAL PROBLEMS QUIZ

Future Prospects on Family Issues

INSTRUCTIONS: Read and answer the following items carefully. Shade the letter of the
correct answer in your ZipGrade answer sheet.
The quiz that you are about to take is TEXT-DEPENDENT, meaning the items are
constructed based from the readings that have been provided and assigned to you. Specifically,
the main text is Introduction to social problems by Thomas J. Sullivan,

1. What is the main issue regarding the
family's future prospects according to
sociologists?
a. The family institution will disappear
entirely
b. The form the family will take is the main
concern
c. Single parenthood will eliminate all other
family forms
d. Cohabitation is the only emerging family
form
2. What type of family structure seems to
be emerging in modern industrial
societies?
a. Extended families only
b. Single-parent families exclusively
c. Nuclear, blended, and same-sex families
coexisting
d. Covert families unheard of
3. What factor has contributed to the
stabilization or decline in the divorce rate
since 1980?
a. Increased societal pressure to stay married
b. Decrease in the marriage rate
c. Mandatory counseling before divorce
d. Higher financial penalties for divorce
4. What is a suggested strategy for
reducing future episodes of child abuse?
a. Increased isolation of parents from
communities
b. Setting up substance abuse treatment
programs for children
c. Training parents in parenting skills
d. Providing more privacy for families
5. How have recent efforts impacted the
vulnerability of women to spouse abuse?
a. Women are now more vulnerable
b. Improving economic and social position
of women
c. Increased isolation of women from society
d. Decreased access to spouse abuse centers
6. What has been a positive step toward
reducing family violence?
a. Keeping the issue of family violence
hidden
b. Establishing protective services for the
elderly only
c. Offering more secrecy around abuse
reporting
d. Bringing the issue into the open
7. What has been the trend in U.S. federal
policies regarding teen pregnancies?
a. Focused solely on promoting abstinence
b. Promoting comprehensive sex education
programs

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c. Encouraging early pregnancies
d. No involvement in teen pregnancy issues
8. What did President Clinton's family
leave bill require large employers to
provide?
a. Paid family leave for all employees
b. Unpaid leave for ill family members and
new children
c. Additional work hours for employees
d. Required more overtime for parents
9. What has been a significant area in
which child-care policies have evolved in
the U.S.?
a. Few employers offering child-care
programs
b. Providing child-care services exclusively
for women
c. Developing comprehensive sex education
programs for children
d. Employers developing child-care
programs
10. What is the primary motivation for
employers to sponsor child-care
programs?
a. Increase in labor costs
b. Retention and recruitment benefits
c. Preference for absenteeism
d. Decrease in productivity
11. Should child-care services be available
to all families according to the text?
a. Only to wealthy families
b. No, only low-income families
c. Yes, irrespective of their economic
circumstances
d. Only to families with multiple children
a. Whether the government should directly
provide services
b. How to make child-care services more
expensive
c. Whether only for-profit centers should be
supported
d. If child-care services should be outlawed
13. What do privatization policies provide
parents to purchase child care?
a. Tax deductions for daily
expenses
b. Vouchers or tax credits
c. Direct government funding
d. Free child-care services
14. What is the argument of
interventionists regarding child-care
programs?
a. The government should not be involved in
providing child care
b. Nonprofit and government-run centers
offer better services
c. For-profit centers provide the best care
d. Government should focus on profit-
making child-care centers
15. What has been the trend in the U.S.
regarding a national policy on paid
maternity leave?
a. Paid maternity leave is mandatory for all
employers
b. The U.S. is the only nation with no paid
maternity leave requirement
c. Maternity leave is only offered to high-
income workers
d. Paid maternity leave is only available for
government employees

12. What is the controversy surrounding

child-care policy privatization?

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Answer Key
1. b. The form the family will take is the main concern
2. c. Nuclear, blended, and same-sex families coexisting
3. b. Decrease in the marriage rate
4. c. Training parents in parenting skills
5. b. Improving economic and social position of women
6. d. Bringing the issue into the open
7. b. Promoting comprehensive sex education programs
8. b. Unpaid leave for ill family members and new children
9. d. Employers developing child-care programs
10. b. Retention and recruitment benefits
11. c. Yes, irrespective of their economic circumstances
12. a. Whether the government should directly provide services
13. b. Vouchers or tax credits
14. b. Nonprofit and government-run centers offer better services
15. b. The U.S. is the only nation with no paid maternity leave requirement

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