Author Question: The principle of tender years in the early 20th century refers to a. the bond between mothers and ... (Read 87 times)

torybrooks · **on:** Jun 18, 2018

The principle of tender years in the early 20th century refers to

a. the bond between mothers and young children that prompted courts to assume that mothers were the preferred custodial parent.
b. the first five years of a marriage in which courts were reluctant to grant a divorce.
c. the idea that children should not start school until six years of age, later lowered to five years for kindergarten.
d. courts virtual refusal to grant divorces to parents of young children except for extenuating circumstances.

Question 2

Yanagisako's research on Japanese Americans documented that they viewed Japanese marriages as based on duty and American marriages as based on romantic love. Nisei (second-generation Japanese Americans) sought to model their marriages on

a. the Japanese model, duty and ethical commitment.
b. the American model, based on romantic love.
c. a combination of the Japanese and American models.