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ACTIVE ENGLISH 27
Topic: Marriage.
Date: January 21st to January 30th .
Is Marriage Becoming Old-Fashioned?
More and more Americans think that marriage is out-of date.
According
to a survey 40% of over 2,500 people asked said that marriage was a thing of the
past and does not work in our society any more. When the same survey
was conducted thirty years ago, only 11% of Americans thought that marriage was
old-fashioned. Marriage is still important but not as important as it once was.
Of the people asked most of marriage’s supporters were seniors, 65 and older.
Groups
that
thought
marriage
was obsolete included
blacks
and
high-
school graduates, as well as people from lower income groups.
Data collected in America has shown that people marry less, and when they do,
they marry at a higher age. On average, women are 26 years old and men 28. For
the first time in over fifty years there are more unmarried people than married ones
in the age group between 25 and 34.
Many Americans think that having children is one of the reasons for marriage. But
people get married for other reasons too. For the past centuries people married
because they could survive better economically. They shared their money and had
children who looked after them when they got old. Men went to work while
women cared for the children and did the cooking.
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Today more and more couples get married simply because they love each other.
Financial stability no longer seems important any more. Young people are
more serious about marriage because they often witness their parents separating.
More and more couples are living together without getting married. 29 percent of
children under 18 live with parents who are divorced or have never married at all.
Americans today are becoming more liberal in defining what a family is.
Most of them think that an unmarried couple living together with a child is a
family and over 60% said that homosexual couples that have adopted a
child are also a family.
Useful Words:
according to = as reported by …
care for = look after
conduct = carry out
data = information
lower income = without much money
marriage = when two people are married
marry = to become husband and wife
on average = normally
out-of-date = old fashioned, not modern
senior = older person
serious = earnest, something is important
share = to split up, divide
supporter = a person who is for something
survey = a number of questions that you ask a lot of people in order to find out what they
think about a certain subject
survive = exist, live on in a difficult situation
unmarried couple = two people who are not married
witness = observe, see
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Answer True (T) or False (F):
1.
…… This article talks about Marriage in European countries.
2.
…… Americans think that marriage is out-of date.
3.
....... Data collected in America has shown that people marry more.
4.
…… Americans marry at a higher age.
5.
…… In the past, Financial stability was a good reason to get married.
What do you think about marriage?
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