英国社会与文化Text C

Read the passage and finish the following exercise.
• Please define a “broken home”: A family that children lack of care for their divorced parents. • According to the passage, it is better for the quarreling croup to divorce each other instead of being forced to stay together just to bring up the children. • A one-parent family may headed by a divorced father or mother, by a widow or widower, by a married woman separated from her husband, or it may be headed by an unmarried mother.
• These days, an unmarried mother may choose to have a baby without marrying the father. She wants to keep the baby rather than have it adopted.
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• The unmarried mother is just one of many single-parent families. But it ma be difficult to bring up a family on her own. She may not be able to work and look after her child. There are some self-help group which she can join. A selfhelp group is one in which all the members are in a similar situation, and they help one another.
• Over 1.5 million children are affected by divorce. There are, therefore, many broken homes in Britain today, but the parents very often marry someone else and set up a new family.
• So a family is no longer forced to stay together just to bring up the children. The children are often happier, too, particularly if they are used to their parents quarrelling endlessly. They may feel that they are better off with dependent children have only one parent.
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A self-group family is one in which all the members are in a similar situation, and they help one another. • Fill in each blank with a suitable preposition or adverb. a. The divorced parents very often marry someone else and set up a new family home. b. The children may feel they are better off with just one parent, or with a new stepparent. c. It may be difficult for the unmarried mother to bring up a family on her own. She may not be able to work and look after her child.
• Since the Reform Art of 1969,it has been easier to get a divorce in Britain and the divorce rate has increased. There is now one divorced for every three marriages.
• The result of a divorce or separation, if there are children in family, is a “broken home” . It is usual for the children to live with their mother. Their father well probably have the legal right to visit the children and have them to stay with him for part of the school holidays.
• About 14 percent of all families with dependent children have only one parent. A one –parent family may be headed by a divorced father or mother ,by a widow or widower, by a married woman separated from her husband. Or it may be headed by an unmarried mother.