Moen and Schorr (Cited by Aulette)identified Four Orientations They Believe

question 48

Multiple Choice

Moen and Schorr (cited by Aulette) identified four orientations they believe must be adopted by policy makers in order to improve family policy.These include all of the following EXCEPT:

• A)Policy makers must acknowledge families as active agents,not just reactors,and therefore participants in finding and implementing solutions.
• B)Policy makers must be informed about the diverse and changing nature of families and the variety of challenges they face.
• C)Policy makers should emphasize families as their unit of analysis rather than focusing on individuals.
• D)Policy makers should require all states to provide adequate funding and implement basic mandated programs so that citizens in less progressive states are not disadvantaged compared to those in more progressive states.

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Definitions:

MST

Minimum Spanning Tree, a concept in graph theory used to describe the shortest path that connects all points in a network without any cycles.

MSE

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Box Plots

A graphical representation using quartiles that displays the distribution of data and identifies outliers.

ANOVA

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