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Read the profiles below about family life in Britain. Some of the sentences (a-g)
have been removed from the profiles. You should put them in the correct numbered
gap. There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use.
a There is also an ethnic dimension.
b Is Britain really in moral decline?
c They also usually now want the right to pursue a career.
d Yet as a picture of the way most British people live, it is increasingly un-
realistic.
e These families often experience isolation and poverty.
f What can be made of such evidence?
g This suggests a static situation, but there is major movement between
classes.
The nuclear family, a married couple with perhaps two children, is still con-
sidered the ideal social unit and most young people still aspire to this idea of their
own future (1) … . If the picture includes the traditional idea of the man going out
to work while the wife stays at home, it is now true of less than 10 per cent of
households. Even without such a limited definition, only 40 per cent of the popula-
tion live in nuclear family households, and even within this group a considerable
proportion of parents are in their second marriage with children from a previous
marriage.
Alongside a social acceptance of divorce greater today than in the 1950s and
1960s, women have been increasingly dissatisfied by the traditional expectations
of the woman’s role in marriage (2) … . Sometimes the husband’s difficulty in
adapting to the new situation puts a strain on the marriage.
One inevitable consequence of the climbing divorce rate has been the rise of
single-parent families (3) … . The great majority of single parents are women. One
in three children under the age of five has divorced parents. Forty per cent of chil-
dren experience the divorce of their parents before the age of 18. 
                                    READING
2    Read the profiles below about family life in Britain. Some of the sentences (a-g)
have been removed from the profiles. You should put them in the correct numbered
gap. There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use.
    a       There is also an ethnic dimension.
    b       Is Britain really in moral decline?
    c       They also usually now want the right to pursue a career.
    d       Yet as a picture of the way most British people live, it is increasingly un-
            realistic.
    e       These families often experience isolation and poverty.
    f       What can be made of such evidence?
    g       This suggests a static situation, but there is major movement between
            classes.

    The nuclear family, a married couple with perhaps two children, is still con-
sidered the ideal social unit and most young people still aspire to this idea of their
own future (1) … . If the picture includes the traditional idea of the man going out
to work while the wife stays at home, it is now true of less than 10 per cent of
households. Even without such a limited definition, only 40 per cent of the popula-
tion live in nuclear family households, and even within this group a considerable
proportion of parents are in their second marriage with children from a previous
marriage.
    Alongside a social acceptance of divorce greater today than in the 1950s and
1960s, women have been increasingly dissatisfied by the traditional expectations
of the woman’s role in marriage (2) … . Sometimes the husband’s difficulty in
adapting to the new situation puts a strain on the marriage.
    One inevitable consequence of the climbing divorce rate has been the rise of
single-parent families (3) … . The great majority of single parents are women. One
in three children under the age of five has divorced parents. Forty per cent of chil-
dren experience the divorce of their parents before the age of 18.

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