Families Today

Chapter 1: Families, Society, and You

Check Your Answers: Section Review Answer Keys

Section 1.1 The Need for Strong Families

Review Key Concepts
  1. Answers can be any four of the following: Love and affection, security, protection, education, teaching values, economic support, procreation, guidance, socialization, and recreation.
  2. Answers may include: Through government and laws, through the policies of employers, through community agencies that support families.
  3. Society cannot do everything; strength is built by the way family members communicate, take responsibility, and care for each other.

Practice Academic Skills

English Language Arts
  1. Answers will vary but should explain a function and its importance. Functions can include love and affection, security, protection, education, teaching values, economic support, procreation, guidance, socialization, and recreation.
  2. Answers will vary but should include knowledge of how society can impact families. Student paragraphs should have a summary of the situation and suggestions for a change the student can make to get to his or her job.

Section 1.2 Why Study Families?

Review Key Concepts
  1. Communication, problem solving/ decision making, management, conflict resolution
  2. Answers will vary but may include: you can use it within your own family, through a career choice, or by volunteering

Practice Academic Skills

English Language Arts
  1. Answers will vary but students should clearly describe a situation involving a positive family communication and draw thoughtful conclusions from it.
  2. Answers will vary depending on the strengths chosen, but paragraphs should identify a strength and give reasons for its importance.
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