Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or Don your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.THE FAMILYStatesmen define a family as "a group of individuals having a common dwelling and related by blood adoption or marriage, (8)_________ includes common-law relationships". Most people are born into one of these groups and will live their lives as a family in such a group.Although the definition of a family may not change, ...

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or Don your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.

THE FAMILY

Statesmen define a family as "a group of individuals having a common dwelling and related by blood adoption or marriage, (8)_________ includes common-law relationships". Most people are born into one of these groups and will live their lives as a family in such a group.

Although the definition of a family may not change, (9)_________ relationship of people to each other within the family group changes as society changes. More and more wives are taking paying jobs, and, as a result, the roles of husband, wife and children are changing. Today, men expect to work for pay for about 40 years of their lives, and, in today's marriages (10)_________ which both spouses have paying jobs, women can expect to work for about 30 to 35 years of their lives. This means that man must learn to do their share of family tasks such as caring for the children and daily (11)_________. Children, too, especially adolescents, have to (12)_________ with the members of their family in sharing household tasks.

The widespread acceptance of contraception has meant that having children is as matter of choice, not an automatic result of marriage. Marriage itself has become a choice. As alternatives such as common-law relationship and single-parent families have become socially acceptable, women will become more independent.

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