单项选择题

In the United States, older people rarely live with their adult children. But in many other cultures children are expected to care (31) their aged parents. In some parts of Italy, the percentage of adult children who (32) with their parents (33) 65 to 70 percent. In Thailand, too, children are expected to care for their elderly parents; few Thai elderly live (34) .
What explains these (35) in living arrangements across cultures Modernization theory (36) the extended family household to low levels of economic development. In traditional societies, the elderly live with their children in large extended family units for economic reasons. But with modernization, children move to urban areas, (37) old people behind in isolated (38) areas. Yet modernization theory cannot explain why extended family households were never common in the United States or England, or why families in Italy, which is fully modernized, maintain a strong (39) of intergenerational living. Clearly, economic development alone cannot explain (40) living arrangements.
Another theory associated intergenerational living arrangements with inheritance patterns. In some cultures, the stem family pattern of inheritance (41) . (42) this system, parents live with a married child, usually the oldest son, (43) then inherits their property when they die. The stem family system was once common in Japan, but changes in inheritance laws, (44) broader social changes brought (45) by industrialization and urbanization, have (46) the tradition. In 1960 about 80 percent of Japanese over 65 lived with their children; by 1990 only 60 percent did — a figure that is still high (47) U.S. standards, but which has been (48) steadily. In Korea, too, traditional living arrangements are (49) : the percentage of aged Koreans who live with a son declined from 77 percent in 1984 to 50 percent just 10 years later. (50) most elderly Koreans still expect to live with a son, their adult children do not expect to live with their children when they grow old.