Children living with single parents encounter many problems. They are more (1) stressful experiences than are children living with continuously married parents. (2) scholars define stress in somewhat different ways, most assume that it occurs when external demands(3) people’s coping resources. This results in feelings of emotional distress, a(n) (4) capacity to function in school, work, and family roles, and an increase in physiological indicators of arousal. Economic hardship, incompetent parenting, and loss of (5) with a parent can be stressful for children. Conflict between nonresident parents appears to be particularly harmful when children feel that they are caught (6), as when one parent speaks ill of the other parent in front of the child, when children are asked to transmit(7)or emotionally negative messages from one parent to the other, and when one parent attempts to recruit the child as an ally (8) the other. Interparental conflict is a d
A. isolated from
B. exposed to
C. correlated with
D. absorbed in
Take a good look at the present rebellion. It seems that teenagers are all taking the same way of showing that they disagree with their parents. Instead of striking out boldly on their wings, most of them are clutching at one another’s hands for reassurance. Their reason for thinking or acting in thus-and-such a way is that the crowd is doing it. It has become harder and harder for a teenager to stand up against the popularity wave and to go his or her own way. They have come out of their cocoon—into a larger cocoon.
Teenage rebellion, according to psychologist Laurence Steinberg, coauthor of You and Your Adol
A. it can do harm to the family
B. it can damage parents’ influence
C. it can prevent teenagers from being individuals
D. it can impair teenagers’ ability to make correct judgment
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