The Contemporary Family in Transformation — Quiz

Cherlin's *Labor's Love Lost* (2014) argues that declining marriage rates among non-college-educated Americans are primarily caused by:

According to the OECD Family Database (2022), approximately what share of births across OECD countries occur outside marriage on average?

Which of the following best describes the 'second demographic transition' as defined by Lesthaeghe (2010)?

What did Biblarz and Stacey (2010) conclude about the internal organization of same-sex households compared with different-sex households?

The US Supreme Court case that established nationwide marriage equality in the United States was:

According to Amato (2010), which of the following most accurately describes the average effect of divorce on children?

Esping-Andersen (1999) identifies the Scandinavian 'dual-earner model' as producing which combination of outcomes?

Inglehart and Welzel (2005) describe a long-run shift in value priorities across high-income societies. Which of the following best characterizes this shift?

Explain what Edin and Kefalas (2005) mean when they describe marriage as a 'capstone' rather than a 'foundation' for poor women, and what structural conditions produce this orientation.

What is a 'chosen family' in the sense used by Weston (1991), and why has the concept been influential beyond LGBTQ+ sociology?

Why does the comparative evidence from Scandinavia challenge the argument that the American 'diverging destinies' pattern reflects universal features of late-modern family life?

Drawing on at least four of the authors covered in this topic, evaluate the claim that contemporary family transformation in rich countries represents a 'crisis' for children and society. In your answer, distinguish between what the empirical evidence shows and what the decline narrative asserts, and consider how cross-national variation complicates any single assessment.