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In the early days of America, the family held together for economic reasons. Father, mother and children all worked together to build the pioneer family or family business. But today, about one out of three marriages ends in divorce, and more and more of them involve children. The divorce rate in America is still the highest in the world, but 75% of the women and 83% of the men who divorce remarry within 3 years. The children from the broken families join up to produce a new kind of unit called the blended family. But 18 million children are now living with their stepbrothers and stepsisters in such an arrangement.
Perhaps the most significant trend today is toward the single-parent household. Of all children under 18, 17% are now living with only one parent. More divorced men feel that they are capable of bringing up their children and are fighting for custody rights. John Wilcox, who has recently won custody of his two little girls, believes he's doing a good job in raising his kids in spite of the rising cost of it.
Business and government officials are looking for new ways to help parents meet their family responsibilities as well as to increase their income. One of them is to increase government support for nationwide day-care centers which allow single parents to find full-time jobs. Clearly enough, this hardly seems enough.
1.How many marriages end in divorce in the USA?
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2.If you have a stepbrother, one of your parents must have ________.
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3.By “custody rights” (Para. 2), the author means the rights to ________.
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4.It can be inferred from what John Wilcox believes that ________.
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A.he is not sure of bringing up his children all by himself
B.he is not sure of taking good care of his children because of the rising cost
C.he is sure that he is able to raise his children as most mothers do
D.he is sure that he can get a good job and take good care of his children
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