Exercise 1. Complete this case study with appropriate words and expressions from the box.

 

Reading 1: Child Rearing – Generation Gap

 

 

Exercise 1. Complete this case study with appropriate words and expressions from the box.

 

Adolescence ● authoritarian ● brought up ● dependents ● divorced ● extended ● formative years ● foster family ● juvenile delinquency ● lenient ● nuclear family ● overprotective ● responsible ● running wild ● siblings ● single-parent family ● strict ● upbringing ● well-adjusted

 

Bob’s problems began during his (1) ………… His parents got (2) …………when he was young, and neither of his parents wanted to raise him or his brother and sister, so he was (3) …………by a (4) …………chosen by his parent’s social worker. Unfortunately, his foster-father was a strict (5) …………and often beat him. Bob rebelled against this strict (6) …………and by the time he was eight, he was already (7) …………stealing from shops and playing truant. By the time he reached (8) …………sometime around his thirteenth birthday, he had already appeared in court several times, charged with (9) …………. The judge blamed his foster parents, explaining that children needed (10)………… parents and guardians who would look after them properly. The foster father objected to this, pointing out that Bob’s (11)………… – his two brothers and sister – were (12) …………children who behaved at home and worked well at school.

 

This has raised some interesting questions about the modern family system. While it is true that parents should not be too (13) ………… with children by letting them do what they want when they want, or be too (14) …………by sheltering them from the realities of life, it is also true that they should not be too strict. It has also highlighted the disadvantages of the modern (15) …………where the child has only its mother and father to rely on or the (16)…………, in which the mother or father has to struggle particularly hard to support their (17) …………In fact, many believe that we should return to traditional family values and the (18) …………family: extensive research has shown that children from these families are generally better behaved and have a better chance of success in later life.