问答题 Social progress has done away with the need for backbreaking work and has provided time and leisure for personality development. With it, indeed because of it, today the middle-class family expects each of its members to develop his unique personality, and so does each individual, more or less, himself. This new- obligation of the family to provide a setting for the development of a unique personality makes family consensus extremely difficult, if not impossible. Nothing is more problematic for a small group of quite different, unique individuals than to live in close quarters, in close harmony with each other. Besides, the necessity of cultivating teenagers' moral character adds to the difficulty in parenting.
【正确答案】社会的进步使人们摆脱了繁重的工作,并有时间和余暇发展个性。随着社会的进步,实际上是由于社会的进步,目前中产家庭期望其每一成员发展独特的个性,每一个人也在某种 程度上期望发展自己的独特个性。家庭担负的新责任是为发展独特个性创造环境,结果使家人很难达成共识,有时甚至不可能达成共识。对于一个由迥异的个人组成的小群体来说,最 棘手的是在同一房檐下十分和谐地生活。此外,家庭还必须要培养青少年的品德,这又增添了当父母的困难。
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