While Parents with Professional Careers Often Have to Work Extra-Long

question 5

Multiple Choice

While parents with professional careers often have to work extra-long workweeks, working-class parents often

• A) have little motivation to have a professional career.
• B) string together a series of overlapping part-time or temporary jobs.
• C) work multiple full-time jobs.
• D) make most of their earnings from government handouts and subsidies.

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Definitions:

Oedipal Complex

A concept in psychoanalytic theory referring to a child's unconscious sexual desire for the opposite-sex parent and jealousy toward the same-sex parent.

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Phenomenology

A philosophical approach that focuses on the direct examination and description of phenomena as consciously experienced, without theories about their causal explanation.

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