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By David Whitman
IT’S NOBODY’S FAULT.Back in February. 1996, when they met at St. James’s Palace to begin formal (1) …, the prince and princess of Wales were at odds, as friction (2) … a minor issue. He wanted a note taker present. She refused. Their (3) … is final, but Britons who favor a shift to a no-fault system, have (4) … from the months of (5) ….
Had the royal (6) … waited a bit longer, much of their (7) … and public maneuvering might have been (8) …. England and Wales, like much of Europe, have minimized the role of lawyers and (9) … the concept of fault in the divorce process.
In 2000, after a heated parliamentary debate, the most fundamental divorce reforms since 1969 finally became law and (10) … general terms of disrupting a (11) …. Reconciliation attempts are mandatory during a longer (12) …. And a divorce won’t be finalized until (13) … and finances are settled.
Such changes replaced the old system, (14) …, which (15) … lawyers (16) … the blame for growing wealthy on confrontation in a divorce settlement while the number of (17) … soared. Today, Britain has the highest divorce rate in Western Europe, with 1 marriage in 2 (18) … to end in dissolution.
POLICEMAN, NOT PRIEST. Opponents of (19) … – like those in America – see the reform as an (20) … for family life and the (21) …. The new act, argues the right-of-center Daily Telegraph, “launched a new (22) … neutrality in government policy… by accepting that one partner may (23) …, call it quits and get a divorce petition regardless of the wishes of the other.”
Reformers say the state’s task is to (24) … of private citizens, providing a framework for relationships, not to pass judgment on them or stop (25) …. As leading columnist Simon Jenkins puts it: “The state is a policeman, not a priest.”
B. Translate the word combinations in bold type into Russian.
Ex. 3. Use the words given in brackets to form a word that fits in the space according to the meaning.
1. In the US, from (colony) times to the present, divorce was widely (accept) but frowned upon (social). By the time of the Civil War, divorces were granted on grounds of (cruel), (abandon), (drunk), (support – neg. ), or verbal abuse or insults.
2. “No-fault” divorce and (contest – neg. ) cases, concepts developed in the 1980s, have further undermined the system of (spouse) support by diminishing the factor of blame and (responsible) for marriage (fail).
3. As partners enter marriage in more (skeptics) frames of mind nowadays, both have to live up to higher (expect) of marital (continue) and (commit).
4. The (define) of family is now broadening to include not only nuclear families but also unmarried heterosexual and gay (cohabit);single-parent and stepfamilies; foster and (adopt) families; (child – neg. ) and (monogamy – neg. ) relationships, and multiple-adult households.
5. Children have no choice in the matter of a divorce or death; a child may feel (resent), (satisfy – neg. ), fear and sadness, which can result in anger. (Parent) (guide) and direction may be needed to help children distinguish between angry feelings and angry behavior.
Ex. 4. Read the text below and decide which option (A, B, or D) best fits each gap.
Divorce
By Tina Gianoulis
Marriage, the legally sanctioned and structured pairing of (1) … couples, has long been an established practice in human civilization. Divorce, the (2) … of a marriage commitment (and, (3) … date, the annulment of the marriage (4) …), is as old as marriage itself and became literally (5) … into human society. Early cultures (6) … to divorce with relative ease. Roman, Greek, Germanic and Frankish law recognized couples’ right (7) … divorce, as did Islam and the Orthodox Church.
Since the 1960s, as legal divorces became easier to (8) …, soaring divorce rates have placed marriage (9) … among the most common rituals of modern society. Divorce is such a (10) … that while many couples still depend upon lawyers (11) … attending to their disputes, others now go to (12) … and execute their divorces quite amicably. Along with splitting couples, there is an (13) … of children divorcing their parents and vice versa.
In past centuries, marriage was part of survival and (14) … economic stability. But as the nuclear family (15) … the extended unit, its function has become more of emotional and physical caretaking. Sociologists cite higher expectations of an (16) … and lasting relationship as the root cause for high rates of divorce (17) … couples. Since marital commitment is no longer a matter of familial (18) …, it is natural for couples to (19) … it quits.
Gale Encyclopedia of Popular Culture
A B C
1) homosexual heterosexual asexual
2) disequilibrium dysfunction dissolution
3) to by of
4) petition license contract
5) incorporated inhibited incarcerated
6) resorted retorted retreated
7) on for to
8) provoke revoke invoke
9) breakage breakup breakaway
10) commonplace non-issue fad
11)in whereas for
12) medians mediums mediators
13) epicenter endemic epidemic
14) enthused enhanced inhibited
15) placed misplaced replaced
16) adoptive adaptive adhesive
17) for by with
18) continuum continuity continuation
19) tell name call
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