FAML 430 1 EXAM QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
marriage law (Early 19th Century) - Answer--formed a new system that used contract, gender, and family status to structure legal rights and obligations.
-Constituted what made a proper family. A woman was to be the ideal wife and mother (piety, virt...
FAML 430 1 EXAM QUESTIONS
WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
marriage law (Early 19th Century) - Answer--formed a new system that used contract,
gender, and family status to structure legal rights and obligations.
-Constituted what made a proper family. A woman was to be the ideal wife and mother
(piety, virtue, and domesticity). Children as vulnerable, malleable creatures with a
special innocence.
-Romantic conception of marriage based on free choice and romantic love (promotion of
personal happiness).
-Increased access to divorce and remarriage.
-Married women possessed distinct rights (property).
-Parents were legally obligated to care for their children. Emancipated minors had
control of their own earnings.
-Fathers had limited custody rights.
-Middle class family more private but be good citizens. -Could take children from bad
parents and children were not criminally responsible
marriage law (late 19th) - Answer--legal priorities shifted away from individual choice
toward social control (rising divorce rate, declining middle class birth rate, changes in
women's role, mounting concern about child abuse/neglect (provided new justifications
for intervention in the family)).
-Imposed physical/mental health requirements for marriage.
-Outlawed polygamy and interracial marriages. Barred first cousin marriage.
-Higher age of consent and adopt procedures for all new marriages.
-Established a waiting period for all marriages.
-Abortion a criminal offence, restricted birth control materials/information.
-Made divorce more difficult (marriage was a life-long commitment, sexual relations
confined to monogamous marriage, and the purpose of sexual relations was
procreation).
--Families viewed as instruments of the state, children as public wards, and courts as
proper vehicles for solving problems.
-Prevented cruelty of children (assist orphaned, illegitimate, neglected). Sought to take
children out of labor force and keep children from being exploited by parents
economically. Schools formed.
-Prevent cruelty to wives and children (didn't work).
-State took authority over children (took it upon themselves to protect the children. '
-Americanized' immigrant children. Family courts created.
-New programs in marriage counseling, proceedings.
-Importance of continuity and stability in caretakers.
-Professional concern about child abuse and family violence grew.
, Early/Late 20th (marriage law) - Answer--family cannot be defined restrictively
(cohabitation, single parents), parents not held accountable for their children's crimes.
-Push for equality in spouses. Decreased interest in enforcing sexual norms.
-A 'competent' unmarried minor can have an abortion without parental permission, if
both adults consent the sex is okay.
-No-fault divorces (increased number of poor divorced women)
What circumstances and beliefs led to child labor becoming an issue and what social
changes led to the end of child labor in the United States? - Answer--Employers used
exploitive practices in the workforce
-Companies were investigated by experts, photography sparked outrage at the poor
conditions that the children worked. Said they needed more of an education
What were the main forces driving parents to send their children off as laborers and why
couldn't they keep the children at home? - Answer--People did not want their children to
be lazy. They needed to be up and working. Other times it is because they were poor
and needed the money
Feminism Wave 1 (1848-1920) - Answer--the West's first sustained political movement
dedicated to achieving political equality for women.
-Despite its racism, the women's movement developed radical goals for its members.
-First-wavers fought not only for white women's suffrage but also for equal opportunities
to education and employment, and for the right to own property.
-it began to turn to the question of reproductive rights.
-In 1916, Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in the US, in defiance of a
New York state law that forbade the distribution of contraception. She would later go on
to establish the clinic that became Planned Parenthood.
Feminism Wave 2 (1963-1980) - Answer--the systemic sexism that taught women that
their place was in the home and that if they were unhappy as housewives, it was only
because they were broken and perverse.
-The Feminine Mystique.
-Social Equality. They would go on to argue that problems that seemed to be individual
and petty — about sex, and relationships, and access to abortions, and domestic labor
— were in fact systemic and political, and fundamental to the fight for women's equality.
-The Equal Pay Act of 1963 theoretically outlawed the gender pay gap; a series of
landmark Supreme Court cases through the '60s and '70s gave married and unmarried
women the right to use birth control; Title IX gave women the right to educational
equality; and in 1973, Roe v. Wade guaranteed women reproductive freedom.
-Known as man-haters, lonely, angry
Feminism Wave 3 (1991-???) - Answer--lots of sexual harassment complaints.
-tended to involve fighting against workplace sexual harassment and working to
increase the number of women in positions of power.
-Embraced the word girl
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