More American mothers than ever are working, and more workers are mothers. Yet their march into the world of paid work continues

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问题     More American mothers than ever are working, and more workers are mothers. Yet their march into the world of paid work continues to cause suspicion. One recent survey found that 48 percent of Americans believe that preschoolers suffer if their mothers work, while another found that 42 percent of employed parents think that working mothers care more about succeeding at work than meeting their children’s needs.
    The kids are all right. Studies conducted by the University of Michigan have consistently demonstrated that a child’s social or academic competence does not depend on whether a mother is employed. In my research four out of five children told me that having a working mother was their preferred arrangement. My study found that children with working mothers are no more likely to drop out, take drugs, break the law, or experiment with sex prematurely than children with non-employed mothers. Children have taken their mothers’ example to heart. Ninety percent of the young women I interviewed said they hoped to combine work with motherhood, while two-thirds of the men said they wanted to share parenting and work.
    Sadly, children support working mothers more than we do as a society. Parental leave and child-care benefits in the United States remain inadequate, particularly when compared to what’s offered in other countries. Children thrive when their mothers have satisfying, well-paid jobs when they can count on other caretakers to share the load. The challenge facing us is thus not whether good workers can also be good mothers, but whether we can create the conditions that enable working mothers and fathers to be good parents.
From the passage, we can not find the proof of the fact that______.

选项 A、mothers do their household work today just as well as they did before
B、lack of mothers’ care, children like to go astray
C、with their mothers working, children are better off
D、in single-parent families, most children like their mothers to go out working

答案B

解析 文章第二段中提到:在母亲外出工作的家庭中与母亲不外出工作的家庭中,青少年辍学、吸毒以及违反法律等情况的发生率相同。选项B意为“缺乏母亲的照顾,孩子们会误入歧途”。
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