Suppose You Study a Group of Working-Class, Dual-Income Couples Who

question 33

Multiple Choice

Suppose you study a group of working-class, dual-income couples who have just had a baby. In all of these families, one of the parents agrees to work "off-shift" in hours different from the traditional 8-to-5 workday. Generalizing from research described in the text, in the first year of your study, you would expect to see that the off-shift work was especially difficult for _______ and in the third year of your study, you would expect to observe that off-shift work was especially difficult for ___________.

• A) both parents; the mother
• B) both parents; the father
• C) the mother; both parents
• D) the father; both parents

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