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Discuss the public goods your family produces in contrast to the public services families in colonial America produced.

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Before the arrival of the Europeans, most Native Americans lived in

A) small kinship groups.
B) extended families similar to the Europeans.
C) tribal societies based on lineages.
D) husband-wife conjugal units.

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The 1965 Immigration Act drastically changed the number of people allowed in the United States from Asia and the largest group to migrate since then has been from

Which of the following was one of the characteristics of the True Woman as described by historian Barbara Welter?

American Indian children were less likely to experience physical punishment and more likely to enjoy independence than were European American children.

How might the life expectancy of a particular society affect the creation of extended family structures in that society?

Native American family and kinship patterns of small kinship groups were affected by external influences with the arrival of the Europeans. What were some of the changes experienced?

The introduction of the birth control pill corresponded with a drop in the age at which women got married.

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A form of polygamy in which a man is allowed to have more than one wife is also referred to as

In what way did settled agriculture, as compared to hunting and gathering, revolutionize human organization?

How did children during the Great Depression adopt a "downward extension of adult-like experience"?

What were historically the three basic activities of most Western families? Which activity has changed most dramatically?

Why was informal marriage particularly common in the Middle Colonies?

U.S. women of the 1950s married at an earlier age (for their first marriage) than U.S. women in previous generations.

Although a good marriage was thought to require a good sex life in the early decades of the 20^th century, it was more important that the wife be satisfied rather than the husband.

Which of the following was a cause for the rise in divorce rates in the early decades of the twentieth century?

In the United States, levels of lifetime childlessness were higher for women who reached their peak child-bearing years in the __________ than in any other generation of women in the twentieth century.

Historically, parental control has been weakened. What are the effects of this great lack of parental control on young adults?

The larger extended family unit has always been a predominant family form in the United States.