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1 .       Teenage pregnancies are on the rise in all modern societies because of the rise in sexual promiscuity and the decline in traditional values. 

 
 


2 .       Decades of research shows that children exposed to day care do at least as well as, and often better than, children raised exclusively in the home by their parents in areas such as intelligence, social competence, and psychosocial development. 

 
 


3 .       Families with low educational and occupational attainment are especially at risk of spouse abuse. 

 
 


4 .       The United States has the most comprehensive social policies regarding families and children of all of the industrialized nations. 

 
 


5 .       Fathers tend to be most involved in primary child care when their children are infants. They become less involved when the children are walking and talking. 

 
 


6 .       Many observers are unsympathetic to abused women because they believe that the women should leave the relationship as soon as the abuse begins. 

 
 


7 .       Although changes in ideology about childhood and child rearing during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries helped to discourage severe and routine beatings, corporal punishment continues to be viewed as an acceptable method of disciplining children. 

 
 


8 .       Research indicates that fathers are somewhat more likely to abuse their children than are mothers. 

 
 


9 .       Many studies have concluded that children raised by homosexual parents are more likely to become homosexual themselves than children raised by heterosexual parents. 

 
 


10 .       Abused children are more likely to be abusive parents than are individuals who were not abused during their formative years. 

 
 






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