In a family where the roles of men and women are not sharply separated and where many household tasks are shared in a greater or (1) lesser extent, notions of male superiority are hard to maintain. The pattern of sharing in tasks and in decisions make for equality, and (2) this in turn leads to less sharing. If the process goes too far, man’s (3) role will be regarded as less important-and that has happened in some case. It is time to reassess the role of the man in the American family. (4) That we need is the recognition that bringing up children involves a (5) partnership of equals. There are signs that psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and specialists of the family are becoming more aware (6) of the part men play and they have decided that women should not (7) receive all the credit-not all the blame. We have almost given up saying that a woman’s place is the home. We are beginning, therefore, to analyze (8) men’s place in the home and to insist that he does have a place in it. The family is a cooperative enterprise for which it is difficult to lay up (9) rules, because each family needs to work its own ways for solving its (10) own problems.