Whydoyoungadultchildrenbecomeindependentsomuchlatertha...

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  Why do young adult children become independent so much later than they did in 1970，when the average age of independent living was 21? Why have reduced class sizes and increased per-pupil expenditures (花销）not _41__ higher academic achievement levels? Why is the mental health of today’s kids so poor when __42__ with that of children in the 1960s and before? Why do today’s __43__ become defensive when told by teachers that their children have misbehaved in school?

The answer is in two words: parental __44__. Those two words best summarize the __45__ between “old” child raising and new, post-1960s parenting. Then, the general philosophy was that parents were not to be __46__ involved with their kids. They were available __47__ emergency, but they stood a (an) __48__distance from their kids and allowed them to experience

the benefits of the trial-and-error process. It was the child’s __49__ , back then, to keep his or her parents from getting involved. That was __50__ children learned to be responsible and determined.

Today’s parents help their kids with almost everything. These are parents who are __51__ when it comes to an understanding of their purpose in their kids’lives. Their involvement leads them to personalize everything that happens to their kids; __52__, the defensiveness. But given that schools and mental health professionals have been pushing parent involvement for nearly four decades, the confusion and defensiveness are __53__.

University researchers analyzed three decades of data relating to parent participation in children’s academics. Their conclusions __54__ what I’ve been saying since the 1980s: parental help with homework __55__ a child’s academic achievement and is not reflected on standardized tests.

Parents who manage a child’s social life interfere with(干预，阻挠) the __56__ of good social skills. Parents who manage a child’s after-school activities grow kids who don’t know how to __57__ their own free time. Parents who get involved in their kids’ __58__ with peers（伙伴） grow kids who don’t know how to avoid much less trouble.

These kids have anxieties and fears of all sorts and don’t want to leave their __59__. And their parents, when the time comes, don’t know how to __60__ being parents. You can imagine what will become of their future.

41. A. touched on      B. counted on          C. resulted in           D. taken in 42. A. associated       B. compared           C. linked             D. matched 43. A.  psychologists   B. adolescents          C. youths            D. parents

44. A.  involvement    B. protection          C. assistance          D. preference 45. A. similarities     B.  differences        C. choices            D. relations 46. A. slightly          B. passively           C. fairly             D. highly  47. A. in view of        B. in spite of           C. in case of         D. in fear of 48. A. safe             B. equal              C. long             D. short 49. A. fault            B. turn               C. job              D. attitude 50. A. when            B. why              C.  how             D. what 51. A. amazed          B. disappointed       C. confused          D. satisfied 52. A. thus             B. still              C. yet                D. however 53. A. unreasonable      B.  understandable    C.  changeable        D. avoidable 54. A. convinced        B. confirmed          C. realized            D. reflected 55. A. lowers          B.  decides           C. helps              D. encourages 56. A. appearance       B. performance        C.  development       D. establishment 57. A. value            B.  fill               C. devote              D. save 58. A. communication    B.  cooperation       C. conflicts           D. competitions 59. A. school                B.  home                      C. career                      D. profession 60. A. stop                   B. ignore                      C. consider                  D. start

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