In a family where the roles of men and women are not sharply separated and where many household tasks are shared to a greater or lesser extent, notions of superiority are hard to maintain. The pattern of sharing in tasks and in decisions makes for equality, and this in turn leads to further sharing. In such a home, the growing boy and girl learn to accept that equality more easily than did their parents and to prepare more fully for participation in a world characterized by cooperation rather than by the “battle of sexes”.
If the process goes too far and man’s role is regarded as less important—and that has happened in some cases—we are as badly off as before, only in reverse.
It is time to reassess the role of the man in the American family. We are getting a little tired of “Momism”— but we don’t want to exchange it for a “neo-Popism”. What we need, rather, is the recognition that bringing up children involves a partnership of equals. There are signs that psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and specialists on the family are being more aware of the part men play and that they have decided that women should not receive all the credits nor all the blame. We have almost given up saying that a woman’s place is in the home. We are beginning, however, to analyze man’s place in the home and to insist that he does have a place in it. Nor is that place irrelevant to the healthy development of the child.
The family is a cooperative enterprise for which it is difficult to lay down rules, because each family needs to work out its own ways for solving its own problems. Excessive authoritarianism has unhappy consequences, whether it wears skirts or trousers, and the ideal of equal rights and equal responsibilities is closely linked not only to a healthy democracy, but also to a healthy family.
(Note: Answer the questions or plete the statements in NO MORE THAN THIRTEEN WORDS.)
【小题1】Children raised in a family where roles of men and women are not sharply separated are more likely to
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【小题2】According to the author, the ideal family pattern should have .
【小题3】In a family being aware of the roles men play, women will not .
【小题4】What is the passage mainly about?accept equality and cooperate with others
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(答案→)accept equality and cooperate with others
解析：文章介绍家庭中男女的同等的权利和责任。和平等的家庭对孩子的重要性。
【小题1】细节题：从第一段的句子：In such a home, the growing boy and girl learn to accept that equality more easily than did their parents and to prepare more fully for participation in a world characterized by cooperation rather than by the “battle of sexes”.可知在这样的家庭长大的孩子更有可能接受平等和与人合作。accept equality and cooperate with others
【小题2】细节题：从第三段的句子：What we need, rather, is the recognition that bringing up children involves a partnership of equals. 理想的家庭是能够意识到抚养孩子是需要平等的伙伴关系， the recognition that bringing up children involves a partnership of equals可知
【小题3】细节题：从第三段的句子：specialists on the family are being more aware of the part men play and that they have decided that women should not receive all the credits nor all the blame.可知在意识到男人的作用的家庭，女性不会受到所有的赞扬和责备：receive all the credit nor the blame
【小题4】主旨题。文章的最后一段的后半句是本文的主题句，它明确说the ideal of equal rights and equal responsibilities is closely linked not only to a healthy democracy, but also to a healthy family.可知这篇文章讲的是男女的同等的权利和责任。
Equal rights and equal responsibilities of men and women.