单选题
In a family where much housework is shared by father
and mother, notions of male superiority (优越) are hard to maintain. The pattern
of sharing in tasks and decision-making arouses equality which in turn leads to
further sharing. In such a home, the children learn to accept equality more
easily than their parents. And they learn to prepare more fully for taking part
in a world which has the nature of cooperation (合作) rather than the "battle of
the sexes". If the process goes too far and man's role is
regarded as less important, we are as badly off as before, only in the opposite
way. It is time to examine the role of the man again in the
American family. We are getting a little tired of "Momism" but we don't want to
change it to a "neo-Popism". What we need, rather, is the recognition that
bringing up children involves a partnership of equals. There are signs that
psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and specialists are becoming more
aware of the part men play. And they have decided that women should not receive
all the praise nor the blame. We have almost given up saying that a woman's
place is in the home. We are beginning, however, to analyze man's place in the
home and to insist that he does have a place in it. That place is relevant (相关的)
to the healthy development of the child. The family is a
cooperative company for which it is difficult to set rules, because each family
needs to work out its own ways for solving its own problems.
The equal rights and equal duties are important not only to a healthy democracy
(民主), but also to a healthy family.