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托福阅读素材：与子女同住(社会科学篇)

2015-04-27 18:43:43来源：网络

　　托福阅读素材社会科学篇：父母要不要跟子女一起住？在美国，这个答案跟中国不一样。新东方在线托福网为大家带来托福阅读素材：与子女同住(社会科学篇)，希望对大家托福备考有所帮助，更多精彩尽请关注新东方在线托福网!

　　在美国，有些父母因为要过自己的生活，害怕连累子女，会排斥子女要求一起同住的好意。的确，美国人民生活的自由习惯会促进这一现象的生成。一起来阅读今天的托福阅读材料吧!

　　install vt. 安装;任命

　　euphemistic: 委婉的

　　relish: 喜爱，享受

　　stereotype n. 陈腔滥调，老套

　　fly in the face of: 悍然不顾，公然违抗

　　holdover: 剩余物;从前一时代过来的人(或物)

　　retrospectively: 回顾地，怀旧地

　　stubborn adj. 顽固的;顽强的

　　nuclear family独生子女家庭

　　Government Issue美国兵

　　多数美国父母不愿与子女同住

　　In a spirit of gratitude and giving back to the parents who raised them, Bill and Jackie Merz's daughters have extended a generous invitation.

　　"They both live in Chicago now," said Bill Merz, 75, a retired Sacramento State psychology professor. "One was willing to put an extra floor on her house and install an elevator for us so we could live there. The other wanted to convert her basement for us.

　　"I told them we'd have somebody shoot us before we did that."

　　The Merzes, who live in their own home at Eskaton Village Roseville, adore their extended, close-knit family, which also includes two sons in California and 11 grandchildren. But the idea of living with the kids in their older age leaves them cold.

　　"My first reaction was, 'I don't want you telling me what to do,'" said Jackie Merz, who is also 75 and a retired teacher and counselor.

　　Most older adults tend to be a bit more euphemistic about it: Typically, they say that they don't want to be a burden to their kids, or that they don't want to impose. But statistics show a plainer truth. In huge numbers, seniors relish their freedom, and they want to live on their own as long as they can.

　　In the Sacramento region, US census figures show that almost three-fourths of people 65 and older live in same-generation (as opposed to multigenerational) households. National figures are even higher, with nearly 80 percent of older adults living in their own households – more than triple the number from the 1940s.

　　A recent survey from the research firm Gallup & Robinson highlights that sense of independence. While 53 percent of people below age 65 said they would take in an aging parent who needed their help, only a quarter of people older than 65 said they would accept an invitation to live with their grown children.

　　Those attitudes fly in the face of a stubborn cultural cliché, in which the grandparents, kids and grandkids grow older together under one roof – a holdover from the days when there was no choice but for the generations to live together, like it or not.

　　"I think the stereotype exists because we continually look retrospectively," said Bill Merz. "It becomes a museum piece. Look at TV shows and movies about Christmas, the nuclear family they show.

　　"It hasn't been that way since World War II. GIs didn't come back from the war and move to Mom and Dad's neighborhood. They moved to the suburbs or across the country."

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