In a family where the roles of men and women are not sharply separated and where many hous

ehold tasks are shared【B1】a greater or lesser extent,【B2】of make superiority are hard to maintain. The pattern of sharing in tasks and in【B3】makes for equality, and this【B4】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【B5】rather than by the "battle of sexes".

In the process goes too【B6】and man's role is regarded as less important—and that【B7】happened in some cases—we are as badly off as before, only in【B8】. It is time to【B9】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【B10】a "neo-Popism". What we need, rather, is the【B11】that bringing【B12】children involves a partnership of equals. There axe signs that psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and specialists on the family are becoming more aware of the part men【B13】and that they have decided that women should not receive all the credits—nor all the blame. We have almost given up【B14】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【B15】have a place in it. Nor is that place【B16】to the healthy development of the child. The family is a cooperative【B17】for which it is difficult to lay【B18】rules, because each family needs to work out its own ways for solving its own【B19】. Excessive authoritarianism has unhappy【B20】, whether it wears skirts or trousers, and the ideal of equal rights and equal responsibilities is pertinent(与......相关) not only to a healthy family.

【B1】

A．with

B．to

C．about

D．for