首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
专升本
The increase of families headed by single parents was one of the most striking changes in the 1980s. By the end of the decade, 2
The increase of families headed by single parents was one of the most striking changes in the 1980s. By the end of the decade, 2
admin
2012-05-24
47
问题
The increase of families headed by single parents was one of the most striking changes in the 1980s. By the end of the decade, 28% of the children in the United States lived with a single parent, a percentage doubled that of 1970. Almost one-third of these children lived with a parent who had never married. Many of these parents had given birth as teenagers. Nearly half of all babies delivered by white teenage mothers in the mid-1980s were born out of marriage. For black teenage mothers the figure was 90% Between 1960 and 1985, the proportion of births to unmarried teenage mothers increased from just over 15% to 58%. Divorces and separations accounted for the other single-parent families.
The economic consequences of living in a single-parent household were stunning. It was reported in 1991 that the average income in two-parent families was more than $ 40 000; in homes headed by divorced mothers, around $ 16 000; and in the homes of never-married mothers, under $ 9 000. The never-married mothers were frequently poor before giving birth to children, and figures for 1985 showed that only one in nine received child support payments from the father of the children. About 54 percent of fathers who had divorced their children’s mother and not remarried made child-support payments. For those who had remarried, the figure dropped to 42%. When payments were made, they tended to be very little.
Single-parent homes relied more heavily than others on outside-the-home childcare arrangements, with the children placed in the care of family and friends as schedules permitted. Older children cared for younger ones at earlier ages. More children spent more time at home alone. National surveys indicated that children growing up in a single-parent family were more likely than those raised in two-parent homes to drop out of high school, marry as teenagers, bear children before marrying, and experience unsatisfying marriages themselves. Even though a majority of children from single-parent families did not have these experiences, their prospects for having them were relatively high.
Which of the following statements is Not true?
选项
A、Single parent children usually take care of themselves.
B、Older children cared for younger ones at earlier ages.
C、Single parents usually arrange for someone like a nurse to take care of the children.
D、Single parents usually put their children in the care of family and friends temporarily.
答案
C
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/c0GC777K
本试题收录于:
英语题库普高专升本分类
0
英语
普高专升本
相关试题推荐
Atfirst,thescientistswhohadbuiltthebombwerepleasedthatithadhelpedtoendthewar.
Scientistsdiscoveredthatatomsofsomesubstancesareradioactive.
Thefirstatomicbomb______.What’stheattitudescientiststowardatomicbomb?______.
Inthispart,youareallowed30minutestowriteacompositiononthetopic"Advertisements".Youshouldwriteatleast120wor
American【B1】______aresimilartoothercities【B2】______theworld.Ineverycountry,citiesreflectthevaluesofthe【B3】___
InWashingtonD.C.,1600PennsylvaniaAvenueisaveryspecialaddress.ItistheaddressoftheWhiteHouse,thehomeofthe
Thisyear’stotaloutputvalueofindustryandagriculturewillincrease______5percentoverlastyear.
Inthe______ofmanyparents,standardsofeducationinthepublicschoolareactuallyfalling.
A、ThereisawasteathomeB、TowasteisaseriousproblemC、Familieswillrunoutofenergy.D、Weshouldconserveenergy.A主旨题。
随机试题
不良反应发生率最高的药物是
圆型卡环常用于
使用呼吸机的患者常常用手势和表情与护士传递交流信息,此时的非语言行为对语言具有
海关对尚未构成走私罪的违法当事人可给予下列()等行政处罚。
下列不属于我国法律规定的遗嘱形式的是( )。
根据《中华人民共和国民法通则》的有关规定,下列选项中,适用于诉讼时效期间为1年的情形有()。
“十三五”时期,坚持()原则,强化旅游环境影响评价,推动绿色技术开发应用,实施绿色旅游开发。
下列音乐形式中,属于汉代鼓吹乐的有()。
Time,asweknowit,isaveryrecentinvention.Themoderntime-senseishardlyolderthantheUnitedStates.Itisaby-produc
SecretaryofStateColinPowellsaid________.
最新回复
(
0
)