1. Fill in each blank with the correct word/phrase from the box.
critical - nurture - equally shared parenting - gender convergence – benefits - enormous - contributes financial burden – extended - finances
1. Mr Long has found that his wife receives a great deal of love when he _______________ to chores.
2. In fact child care seems to have some important ___________________ for young children.
3. Ho Xuan Huong was a female poet who was _____________ of gender inequality.
4. Ties with the _______________________ family are generally very close.
5. Mothers play a/an ____________ role in the lives of their children and the bond is very strong.
6. Fathers and mothers who follow _____________________ have made a conscious decision to share equally in the raising of their children, household chores, breadwinning, and time for recreation.
7. Overall, women’s time in domestic work has been declining and we see a slow but continuing trend of ________________ in work time and the domestic division of labour.
8. My mother goes to work too and does everything else including all the _______ laundry, cleaning, and child care.
9. More than one-fourth of American families faced ____________________ due to medical costs.
10. When your child was young, your role was to ___________________ and guide him.<div id="eJOY__extension_root" unset;"="">

2. Fill in each blank with the appropriate form of the word in brackets.
1.One recent survey found that men’s _____________________ in the home had increased almost threefold in the last four decades, (contribute)
2. a mother’s love can be as __________________ as breastfeeding. (benefit)
3. In the traditional Japanese family system, the entire estate of the family, and the _________________________ assets are transferred from the father to the eldest son. (finance)
4. Mrs White spoke of her husband because he didn’t share anything with household chores, (criticize)
5. My aunt works _____________________ hard to support her family because her husband died in a car accident a year ago. (enormous)
6. When we have some trouble in our family, we should have family meetings to work out a ____________________ (solve)
7. The husband is responsible for the family`s economic well-being and takes pride in his role as _______________ (provide)
8. Parenting ______________________ offer children good opportunities for their future. (collaborate)
9. We do our share of housework willingly so that we can follow___________________ interests in our free time, (recreation)
10. Researchers found that an unequal __________________ of household chores negatively affected wives’ marital_____________________ (divide –satisfy)<div id="eJOY__extension_root" unset;"="">