单项选择题
| In America, 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%. in Thailand, too, children are expected to look
after their elderly parents; few Thai elderly live (34) .
What explains these differences in living arrangements across cultures
Modernization theory (35) the extended family to low levels
of economic development. In traditional societies, the elderly live with their
children in large extended family units for economic reasons. (36)
with modernization, children move to urban areas, (37)
old people after in (38) rural areas. Yet
modernization theory can’t ’explain why such households were never common in
America or England, or why families in fully modernized Italy (39)
a strong tradition of intergenerational living. Clearly, economic
development alone cannot explain (40) living
arrangements. Another theory associated intergenerational living arrangements with inheritance (41) . In some cultures, the stem family pattern of inheritance overtakes. (42) this system, parents live with a married child, usually the oldest son, who then (43) 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 usage. In 1960 about 80% of Japanese over 65 lived with their children; by 1990 only 60% (47) — a figure that is still high (48) American standards, but which has been (49) steadily. In Korea, too, traditional living arrangements are (50) : the percentage of aged Koreans who live with a son declined from 77% in 1984 to 50% just 10 years later. |