Exercise 47. Fill the blanks with these words and phrases and translate the sentences.

contemptuous and naughty	rights and obligations	smack	outsider
talent for self-sacrifice	undivided attention	adults	regard for
consideration or respect for	by their own example	parenthood	diversion
set up housekeeping	taking into account	offspring	stomp
subject of legal action	obsequious treatment	ignorable	abuse

1. Common law has a branch that determines the legal (1) ______ of fathers or mothers to their (2) ______.

2. Parents who (3) ______ their children physically or emotionally may be the (4) ______.

3. Her wish to live for the future of the children and compulsion to (5) ______ resulted in no rewards other than those provided by (6) ______. If she wanted to read a book, the two pretty daughters would (7) ______ and demand her (8) ______.

4. My sister has a (9) ______ and her four-year-old is her only (10) ______, excitement and adventure. The little lady, naturally, has no (11) ______ her parents who have so little (12) ______ their own needs. I am afraid that (13) ______ my sister and brother-in-law have taught her to neglect (14) ______. The girl is so (15) ______ which is actually scarcely surprising (16) ______ the parents' (17) ______ of the baby-sovereign.

5. An (18) ______, seeing an angry father (19) ______ a six-year-old son might find the parent unreasonable and the incident (20) ______. He is unlikely to understand that the penalty may cover a multitude of sins.

Exercise 48. Are these statements true or false or not stated? Correct the false ones. If the statement is true, enrich it with details. If it is not stated, say whether yon share the same view.

1. The court awards custody to the parent best qualified to care for the children in case of separation.

2. As a rule, the mother becomes the legal guardian of the children.

3. State intervention becomes necessary if the parents don't take their responsibilities seriously.

4. The children have taken over everything in this country as there has never been an adult society here.

5. Beating the child for misdemeanor has no alternatives.

6. Promiscuous baby-making is directly connected with the adult's talent for self-sacrifice.

7. Children have more emotional energy and dominate in nuclear families.

8. Some parents have so little respect for their children's needs that they seem stupid or insane.

9. Parents teach children by their own example and ask little for themselves.

10. Penalty should cover a number of sins and should not fit each trivial offense.

11. To insult a child is to hurt his/her small dignity.

12. Kids' contemptuous treatment of adults is the fault of educated women who gave up their lives for them.

13. Children's mental disorder is influenced by variable and unpredictable factors.

14. The best solution to kids' grotesquely inflated respect for themselves is effective and suitable punishment.

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