The family in Britain is changing.The once typical British family headed bytwo parents has undergone substantial changes during the twentieth century.(1) _________________________________________________.By the year 2020, it is estimated that there will be more single people than married people.Fifty years ago this would have been socially unacceptable in Britain.In the past, people got married and stayed married.Divorce was very difficult, expensive and took a long time.Today, people’s views on marriage are changing. (2) _____________________________.Only about 60% of these couples will eventually get married.In the past, people married before they had children, but now about 40% of children in Britain are born to unmarried parents.In 2000, around a quarter of unmarried people between the ages of 16 and 59 were living together in Great Britain.Before 1960 this was very unusual.People are generally getting married at a later age now and many women do not want to have children immediately.(3) _____________________________________.The number of single-parent families is increasing.This is mainly due to more marriages ending in divorce, but some women are also choosing to have children as a single parent without being married.
1.In patricural ,the number of single person ..which ..in ..between 1981 and 2002
2.Many couples most in their 20s or 30s live together without getting married
3.They perfer to concentrate on their job and put out to having a baby
in particular, there has been a rise in number of single person households which increase from eighteen to twenty-nine percent of all households between 1971 and 2002.
many couples mostly in the twenties or thirties lived together without getting married.
They prefer to concentrate on their jobs and put off having a baby until the late thirties.
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