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MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. The 2011 Census counted which type of family for the first time?
a. stepfamilies
b. lone-parent families
c. extended families
d. intentional families
ANS: A REF: p. 288 BLM: Remember
3. Which of the following describes a stepfamily when the current married spouse or common-law
partner adopts the child or children of the other married spouse or common-law partner?
a. nothing changes
b. it becomes a simple stepfamily
c. it becomes a complex stepfamily
d. it is no longer a stepfamily
ANS: D REF: p. 289 BLM: Higher order
4. Which term describes a family in which all children are the biological or adopted children of one and
only one married spouse or common-law partner in the couple?
a. simple stepfamily
b. complex stepfamily
c. lone-parent family
d. unblended stepfamily
ANS: A REF: p. 289 BLM: Remember
5. Gisèle is married to René. They live together with Gisèle’s daughter and René’s two sons. What kind
of family is this?
a. simple stepfamily
b. complex stepfamily
c. extended family
d. binuclear family
ANS: B REF: p. 289 BLM: Higher order
6. Since World War II, which change has taken place regarding remarriage?
a. Recently there has been an increase in remarriage among the widowed.
b. There has been a shift from widowed to divorced individuals among those remarrying.
c. The widowed who now remarry were, on the average, older when their husbands died.
d. There has been a shift from divorced to widowed individuals among those remarrying.
12. Before people can enter a new marriage emotionally, what do they need to do?
a. focus their anger on their ex-spouse
b. mimic a first-marriage family
c. draw tight boundaries around the new relationship
d. achieve an emotional divorce from their earlier union
ANS: D REF: p. 292 BLM: Higher order
14. Which of the following is NOT an aspect of forming the new family?
a. Boundaries and roles need to be renegotiated.
b. Spouses need to accept that difficulties will not be solved overnight.
c. Children need to stay connected with the ex-spouse’s family.
d. The relationship with the ex-spouse over child support needs to be maintained.
ANS: A REF: p. 293 BLM: Higher order
17. What happens if stepfamilies respond to boundary ambiguity by trying to become as much like a first-
marriage family as possible?
a. They are realistically trying to follow social scripts.
b. They are using the most workable solution to visiting.
c. Children will feel less confusion about their roles.
d. It may throw children into a conflict of loyalties.
ANS: D REF: p. 293 BLM: Higher order
22. How does the stepparent often act in successful reconstituted families?
a. as a stern disciplinarian to the children
b. as an adult friend to the children
c. as a substitute parent to the children
d. as a source of treats to the children
ANS: B REF: p. 294 BLM: Higher order
23. After two years, Yana and Marec have finally worked out comfortable relationships with each other’s
children and are happy with visiting arrangements. What is likely to happen in the years to come?
a. They will have to work hard to keep these arrangements from changing.
b. They will need to resolve role ambiguities.
c. They will need to make adjustments as circumstances change.
d. They must be vigilant so that family boundaries won’t become permeable.
ANS: C REF: p. 294 BLM: Higher order
24. What does a remarried couple need to do in addition to tasks faced by first-marriage families?
a. be more romantic so as to avoid conflict
b. keep relationships with their children and ex-spouse the same
c. cut off contact with former in-laws
d. adjust the relationship with their children and ex-spouse
ANS: D REF: p. 295 BLM: Higher order
25. Which of the following is a difference between the relationships of first-marriage and second-marriage
couples?
a. Couples in second marriages are more romantic than those in first marriages.
b. Couples in first marriages are more honest about difficulties in the marriage than those in
second marriages.
c. Couples in second marriages are more sensitive to conflict than couples in first marriages.
d. Couples in first marriages have less defined roles than couples in second marriages.
ANS: C REF: p. 295 BLM: Higher order
26. Remarried couples may be especially sensitive to conflict. According to the text, what is a healthy
response?
a. conceal differences behind a shield of apparent agreement
b. have greater awareness of the feelings of the new spouse
27. Joel is divorced and has two children from his ex-wife. Which of the following likely describes the
role of Joel’s ex-wife now that Joel has remarried?
a. She can affect the new marriage because she is the mother of Joel’s children.
b. She cannot affect the new marriage because Joel is still very angry at her.
c. She can cause problems in the new marriage by gossiping with Joel’s new wife.
d. She has no more influence over Joel and cannot affect the new marriage.
ANS: A REF: p. 295 BLM: Higher order
28. Following their adult child’s divorce, in which circumstances are grandparents least likely to lose
contact with grandchildren?
a. they have mixed in to their son’s marital disputes
b. their daughter has primary custody of her children
c. their ex-daughter-in-law has custody of the children
d. they threaten to take the custodial parent to court
ANS: B REF: p. 296 BLM: Higher order
29. What is the most common difficulty between spouses in a second marriage?
a. conflict over children
b. conflict over finances
c. jealousy over the previous spouse
d. negotiating new roles around the home
ANS: A REF: p. 296 BLM: Remember
30. Which of the following is likely to happen if a second marriage does not dissolve quickly?
a. It will be more stable than a first marriage.
b. It will be as stable as any first marriage.
c. The couple will face serious difficulties within five years.
d. It will be an exceptionally happy marriage.
ANS: B REF: p. 297 BLM: Higher order
31. Following her divorce, Susanna has been very disorganized and withdrawn. In order to keep the family
functioning, her daughter has taken over an unusual level of responsibility for the care of a younger
brother. What has the daughter become?
a. a parentified child
b. a bossy sibling
c. a mother’s helper
d. a babysitter
ANS: A REF: p. 297 BLM: Remember
32. Sometimes a daughter becomes the confidante of her divorced mother. When the mother remarries,
which of the following is the daughter’s least likely response?
a. feeling a sense of loss and resentment over giving up the role of confidante
b. becoming more demanding with acting-out behaviour
c. feeling a sense of relief that someone else is responsible for her mother
33. Following his parents’ divorce, Brendan lives with one parent and often sees the other. In which
circumstances is frequent contact such as Brendan experiences most likely?
a. when the nonresidential parent has remarried
b. when the residential parent is unfriendly toward the ex-spouse
c. when the nonresidential parent is the mother
d. when the nonresidential parent has relatively low education and income
ANS: C REF: p. 297 BLM: Higher order
36. Both stepfathers and stepmothers report more positive relationships with which of the following?
a. adolescent girls
b. adolescent boys
c. younger girls
d. younger boys
ANS: D REF: p. 298 BLM: Remember
40. Any differences in treatment of the children in stepfamilies are usually interpreted by children as
which of the following?
a. Normal
b. Favouritism
c. the new norm
d. a way to show affection
ANS: B REF: p. 300 BLM: Remember
41. Why might adolescents in a stepfamily adopt a conflict attitude toward stepsiblings?
a. because that is what all adolescents do
b. as a way of maintaining a safe distance from stepsiblings
c. to annoy their parents
d. to show loyalty to their birth parent
ANS: D REF: p. 300 BLM: Higher order
42. In what way has the likelihood of two sibling groups being combined in one household changed?
a. It has decreased because the trend is toward giving mothers custody.
b. It has decreased because it is not in the best interests of the children.
c. It has increased because more fathers are being given custody.
d. It has increased because families have been getting larger.
ANS: C REF: p. 300 BLM: Remember
43. What do children expect when they experience conflicts with stepsiblings?
a. to have their biological parent to side with them
b. to have family “rules” to draw upon when making decisions
c. to have different attitudes about each other’s property
d. to have their parents mediate in major arguments
ANS: A REF: p. 300 BLM: Higher order
44. Which of the following is least likely to be a source of conflict between stepsiblings?
a. the children interpret any differences in treatment as favouritism
b. there are difficulties over turf when a second set of children joins the household
c. visits are arranged so that there is only one set of children in the house at once
d. combining two groups of children produces a duplication in roles
ANS: C REF: p. 300 BLM: Higher order
46. What do studies show regarding having a baby born into a stepfamily?
a. It is related to family stability.
b. It increases conflict among stepsiblings.
c. It makes stepchildren feel more wanted.
d. It increases husband–wife conflict over children.
ANS: A REF: p. 301 BLM: Remember
47. Who are children living in a stepfamily most similar to in terms of their adjustment in later life?
a. children raised by lesbian parents
b. children raised in traditional nuclear families
c. children raised by grandparents
d. children raised by lone mothers
ANS: D REF: p. 301 BLM: Remember
48. Which of the following is least likely to account for difficulties stepchildren experience?
a. Stepchildren have undergone several family transitions.
b. Stepparents use an authoritative parenting style.
c. Stepfathers show less affection and supervise children less.
d. The problems may reach back before the formation of a stepfamily.
ANS: B REF: p. 301 BLM: Higher order
49. What is one way to explain why some stepchildren do better than others?
a. Stepchildren have undergone several family transitions.
b. Stepparents use an authoritative parenting style.
c. Stepfathers show less affection and supervise children less.
d. The problems may reach back before the formation of a stepfamily.
ANS: B REF: p. 302 BLM: Higher order
51. Stepfamilies often receive conflicting messages from society. What is this called?
a. role ambiguity
b. self-fulfilling prophecy
c. social scripting
d. petty criticism
ANS: A REF: p. 304
COMPLETION
1. _____________ is a marriage that takes place after a previous marriage has ended.
ANS: Remarriage
REF: p. 288
2. The 2011 Census counted stepfamilies for the first time and they represented about one in _________
couple families with children.
ANS: eight
REF: p. 288
3. ____________ refers to a family where the children are related to one parent but not the other.
ANS: Stepfamily
REF: p. 289
4. A(n) ________________ is one in which all children are the biological or adopted children of one and
only one married spouse or common-law partner in the couple.
REF: p. 289
ANS: blended
REF: p. 289
ANS: boundaries
REF: p. 293
7. The term ____________________ has been coined to refer to the relationship between current and ex-
wives.
ANS: wife-in-law
REF: p. 295
8. A child who accepts an unusually high degree of the parent’s responsibilities of care and nurturing is
called a(n) ____________________ child.
ANS: parentified
REF: p. 297
9. ____________________ parents are seen as a source of pleasure, but may be cut off from the
mainstream of daily living.
ANS: Nonresidential
REF: p. 297
10. One important area of conflict between stepparents and stepchildren is ______________, because
stepparents are not regarded as “real” parents.
ANS: discipline
REF: p. 297
ANS: stepsiblings
REF: p. 300
12. In James Bray’s stepfamily types, the ______________ type is the least likely to succeed.
ANS: romantic
REF: p. 303
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5. Explain difficulties experienced by a parentified child when his or her parent remarries.
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6. What factors affect the frequency of visits between a nonresidential parent and his or her child?
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ESSAY
1. Explain why remarriage families often face more problems than first-marriage families. Use examples
to illustrate your points.
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2. Negotiating boundaries and roles is extremely important for remarriage families. Discuss the
difficulties faced by family members in these two areas.
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3. Discuss the effect of remarriage on the relationship between children and their biological parents.
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4. Describe the differences between simple and complex stepfamilies. Provide real examples to illustrate
the different stepfamily forms.
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5. Using information from the text about the various issues facing stepfamilies, explain why each of
James Bray’s three stepfamily types may or may not be successful.
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