A Short History of the Changing

Family
Q: 5. Recognizing Topics in Reading about
History
A. Definitions of family
B. the kinds of families around the world.
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C. reasons for changes in the structure of the

family.
D. the typical family in the 1930s and 1940s
E. the typical family after World War II.
F. changes in family between in 1960s and the
beginning of the 21st century.
G. family structure of the future.
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• The best topic / subject of this Reading is

• D. Changes in the structure of the family from

the 20th century to the future.
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• Q6. Recognizing the Main Idea.
• A. What are the definitions of the two main types
of families?
• B. What are the different kinds of families around
the globe today?
• C. What caused the changes in the structure of the
family?
• D. What happened to families in the industrialized
countries in the 1930s and 1940s?
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• E. What happened to family structure during the
next decade?
• F. Is there any changes to family after the 1960s?
• G. What will be the family structure in the
future?
• Whole Reading Question:
• In what different ways family changes in the 20th
and 21st centuries?
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• Q6.B ( True / False)
• 1. The nuclear family is opposite of the extended
family: it consists of only one parents and their
biological ( related by blood) or adopted children.
• 2. Today there are many different kinds of families
around the globe.
• 3. In the early 1990s in the United States, the divorce
rate began to rise and the birthrate, began to decline; in
other words, coupled stayed married for fewer years,
and they had fewer children.
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• 4. Before and during World War II, families

faced serious financial problems in the
industrialized world, so women had to work
outside the home. There weren’t many ‘perfect
families’.
• 5. After the war, family structure changed back
in the other direction: there were less divorces
and more stay-at-home mothers; children began
to live at home longer.
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• 6. From the 1960s on, there were many new

changes in the structure of the family around
the globe.
• 7. People want the traditional two-parent
nuclear family – with a working father and
mother at home; however, this structure will
probably come back and all other family forms
too.
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1930s to 1940s