Which Statement About Children and Stepfathers Is True

question 82

Multiple Choice

Which statement about children and stepfathers is true?

• A) Relationships between children and stepfathers tend to be better when there are stepsiblings living with the family as well.
• B) Children with stepfathers tend to have higher rates of disruptive problem behaviours than do children in intact families.
• C) Conflict between children and biological fathers is more common than conflict between children and stepfathers.
• D) Stepfathers rarely contribute to supervision of their stepsons.

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Definitions:

Constant Cost Industry

An industry in which the costs of production do not change as the industry's output changes.

Natural Monopoly

A market situation in which the average costs of production continually decline with increased output. In a natural monopoly, the average costs of production will be lowest when a single, large firm produces the entire output demanded by the marketplace.

Perfectly Elastic

Perfectly elastic refers to a situation in economic theory where the quantity demanded or supplied of a good changes infinitely in response to any change in price.

Price-taker Industry

An industry in which companies have no control over the prices they charge because these prices are determined by the overall supply and demand in the market.