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Fathers in today's families are spending more time with their children than at any point in the past 100 years. ___(41)___ the number of hours the average woman spends at home with her children has declined since the early 1900s, as more and more women enter the workforce, there has been a decrease in the number of children per family and an increase in ___(42)___ attention to each child. As a result, mothers today in the United States, ___(43)___ those who work part- or full-time, spend almost twice as much time with each child as mothers did in the 1920s. People ___(44)___ raised children in the 1940s and 1950s typically report that their own adult children and grandchildren communicate far better with their kids and spend more time helping with homework than they did.
America's children are also safer today than they've ___(45)___ been. An infant was four times more likely to die in the 1950s than today. A parent then was 27 per cent more likely to lose an older teen to death.
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Generation gap refers to a vast difference in cultural norms between a younger generation and their elders. It’s a distressing thing for the phenomenon ___(46)___ occurs around the world. The ___(47)___ of communication, different views on certain problems and different attitudes towards life may cause the generation gap or even widen it. First, one of the major factors for this misunderstanding between two generations is that parents and children lack communication. Young people ___(48)___ reveal their feelings to their parents, and often complain that their parents are out of ___(49)___ and that they talk too much about certain problems. So when young people meet some problems, they would rather ___(50)___ to their classmates or their friends for help. The lack of communication widens the generation gap.