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1What do some foreigners notice when they visit some Oriental, Asian, African and even European countries?
2 What kind of families do people live there in?
3 What are the advantages of living in such a family for a young couple, according to the text?
4 How do old people benefit from socializing with younger children?
5What problems are old people often faced with?
6What changes took place in the American family in the 20th century?
7 What problems can people of three generations living together have?
8 What are advantages of having old people living in the same home?
9Which type of family is more preferable for a young family to live in?
10What are advantage/disadvantages of living in a nuclear and extended family? Which overweigh which, advantages or disadvantages, in your opinion?
11Which of type of family would you personally prefer to live in? How can you account for your choice?
12 What are the pros and cons of monogamy (one husband, one wife), polygamy (one husband, several wives) and polyandry (one wife, several husbands)?
13 Should parents be allowed to decide who their children marry? What are the advantages of an arranged marriage? What are the dangers of a marriage that is only based on personal compatibility?
14 Should marriages be to people outside the immediate circle of relatives or immediate community (exogamous), or restricted to one’s own kin or social group (endogamous)? Is it better to marry someone from one’s own social class and nationality?
15 What is the right age to get married?
16 Should couples be allowed to get divorced? If not, how should they resolve their problems? Why are divorce rates constantly increasing in the Western world and what could be done to stop this increase?
17Why do people get married and start families? What valuable and beneficial
functions does the family perform?
18 Society has assumed some functions previously provided by the family. What are
pluses and/or minuses of these changes? Can social institutions substitute the family?
19 How can you account for the changes in the family status and relationships within
the family? What are advantages and/or disadvantages of the modern family
20 Should the mother or the father be the head of the family (i.e. matriarchal or patriarchal)? What roles do mother and father play in your society? And sons and daughters? Who is the boss in your family?
21 What influence have your parents had on your life? Whose influence was stronger – your mother’s or your father’s? Would you instill (прививать) the values that your parents instilled in you into your children?
22 Is descent (наследственность) in your society patrilineal [(определяемый по мужской линии), i. e. all children take their father’s surname), matrilineal (through the mother) or bilineal (through father and mother)? Should sons and daughters have equal inheritance rights?
23 Should all members of a family try to live in the same area?
24 What differences have you noticed between family life in Britain/America, etc., and family life in your own country?
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