A) residency patterns that don't conform to the middle-class ideal of two married adults with children.
B) teenage pregnancy and births occurring out of wedlock.
C) institutional and interpersonal discrimination.
D) social workers and parole officers who intrude into people's lives.
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Multiple Choice
A) families in traditional societies trade their children with one another, in order for the children to receive useful job training and employment.
B) black families, especially those headed by women, support one another and depend on extended kin to help them get through hard times.
C) people who work for the wealthy as housekeepers, child care providers, gardeners, cooks, and chauffeurs become "like family" and often are included in family portraits.
D) in most countries one's marital partner is usually recruited from a distantly related branch of one's family rather than from a family with whom one has no
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Multiple Choice
A) almost no one who is persistently poor can break out of poverty.
B) kin networks are able to lift people out of poverty by pooling resources and providing nonmonetary benefits to participants.
C) women who give birth out of wedlock are ignored by close kin, but when they marry they are taken in and given whatever support they need.
D) women who give birth out of wedlock are given whatever help they need, but when they marry are often rejected by close kin.
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Multiple Choice
A) illegal immigrants from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
B) groups of adolescents who have run away from home and live together communally.
C) families that share a similar, underground religion or set of cult beliefs.
D) poor African American families.
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