Practice SVIP

Choose the best option to complete the sentence.

1. Women have been given __________ economic and political rights, as well as the right to choose their own husband.

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2. Teachers in modern classrooms are __________ because their main task is to set goals and organise the learning process accordingly.

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3. The traditional role of a husband is a __________ of safety and security.

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4. Before the rise of Islam in the early 600s, Arabs lived in a traditional, __________ society; men regarded women as their property.

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5. He' still ___________ dependent on his parents; he regularly receives money from them.

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The

of parental authority has changed. Today, no parent can their children's respect for granted: authority has to be earned. Several studies have shown the following problems.

Trust: A lot of young people say their parents don't trust them. Some of them have no privacy: their parents read all their emails, and enter their rooms

knocking. All of these actions demonstrate lack of respect. , these teenagers have little for their parents.

Communication: Hardly any teens discuss their problems with their parents. That's because very few teens feel their parents really listen to them. Instead, most parents tend to fire off an immediate

to their kid's first sentence.

Freedom: Interestingly. Most rebels come from very authoritarian homes where kids have very little freedom. Teens need

rules but they have to be clear and unchangeable. Also, if the mother and father don't agree about discipline, teens have less respect for parents. They also need a lot of support and a little freedom to take their own decisions. None of them enjoy just listening to adults.

Role models: Teens don't have much respect for their parents if

of them actually does things they expect their children to do. Like everybody, teens appreciate people who practice what they reach.

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There has been a big change in the roles of men and women at home which in turn their feelings about their roles. However, it is important to highlight how this distribution of tasks and responsibilities can affect the relationships may end up in discords, or even divorces. In order to make a distinction between the past and the present times, are provided: in the past, 75% of all the washing and ironing was care by women. Husbands were involved in cleaning in only 17% and used their time at home on repairs. The care of children was mainly a task carried out by women. The little time that men spent with children usually the more enjoyable aspects of child care such as play and outings. However, this has because now women are the ones who spend less time at home to their jobs or their different activities. And nowadays, most husbands stay at home taking care of children and the cooking. As a consequence of the change in roles, women have become more liberal and think they can manage their own. Men, on the other hand, feel that their position and power in the family has been replaced by women.

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Men have played a significant in American society as the main breadwinner, and protector of the family. But the traditional role of men has slowly been transferred to women. Society is changing women going to college, and gaining jobs. It may even happen in several years time when women are given sole earning in American society as the main of the family. That is due in part to women gained working privileges to men in the 1970s.

Up until the 1970s, men were the traditional family breadwinners, while women stayed at home, raised the kids, made dinner every night, cleaned the house, and ran all of the errands. Men went to work every day, making enough money to buy a nice home, buy a new car every so often.

Once women were afforded the to work in the same jobs men once held, men's more traditional foothold in the workplace was loosened. Women were given bigger jobs with more responsibility, but women take jobs with major responsibly with pay than men.

The role of men in American society is with more women going to college, and obtaining careers; men are playing more untraditional roles at home. Women are still giving birth to the kids, running errands, cleaning, making dinner. Young children, boys as well as girls, are being raised with dad at home care of the kids.

Millions of families are also raising their young with mom and dad all of the responsibilities. Today's role of men in American society is more of a shared role, with a more undefined role.