Bertha Has Just Turned 16 and Has Caught the Special

question 40

Multiple Choice

Bertha has just turned 16 and has caught the special interest of her father because she looks just as attractive and sexy as her mother did when they first dated. Bertha's mother has noticed this and now feels like a maid, not a wife and mother. What do sociologists call this condition of a father seeing his daughter as a possible sexual interest, and a wife feeling as though she is a maid, rather than a wife and mother?

• A) ego identity
• B) role distance
• C) diffusion of responsibility
• D) role confusion

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