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2.2 Прочтите текст THE FAMILY. найдите
соответствия русских и английских слов и выражений.
1. To take place
2. To stay at home
3. To work outside the house
4. A couple
5. Salary, wage
6. Divorce
7. To sanction
a. Развод
b. Пара
c. Происходить, случаться
d. Заработная плата
e. Работать вне дома
f. Оставаться дома
g. Утвердить, одобрить
2.3 Прочтите текст и сравните информацию из текста с
ситуацией в нашей стране.
THE FAMILY
The American family has changed greatly in the last 20 or 30 years.
Many of these changes are similar to the changes taking place in other
countries.
Young people are waiting longer before getting married. Women
are also waiting longer to have children. It’s not usual today for a woman
to have the first child in her mid-thirties. And families are having fewer
children. The typical families have one or two children.
In the traditional family, the wife stayed at home with the children
while the husband earned money. Now 60 per cent of all married women
work outside the home. So a majority of couples have two wage-earners.
One reason for this change is that want and expected to have careers.
Another reason is economics. With rising prices, many families cannot
survive on one person’s salary.
The United States has a high divorce rate: approximately 1 in every
2 marriages ends in divorce. One result of this high divorce rate is the
many American children live in single-parent families. Although some
women wait until their thirties to have their first child, other women
become mothers while they are still teenagers. Many of these teenaged
mothers are not married. Many are also poor. Poverty among children in
homes headed by single mothers has become a serious problem in the
United States. Often people who are divorced get married again. This has
led to a new kid of family ― the “reconstituted family”, in which there
are children from previous marriages as well as from the present
marriage.

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