Traditionally, sole custody to the mother was the only option considered by the courts for divorcing parents. More recently, over half of the states have enacted legislation authorizing joint custody. About 16 percent of separated/divorced couples actually have a joint custody arrangement. In a typical joint custody arrangement, the parents continue to live in close proximity to each other. The
children may spend part of each week with each parent or may spend alternating weeks with each parent. One potential disadvantage of joint custody is that it tends to put hostile ex-spouses in more frequent contact with each other, and the marital war continues. Children do not profit from being subjected to bickering, yet relationships between children and bickering parents are not significantly different from those between children and parents who do not have joint custody. In a national study of children whose parents had a joint custody arrangement, the researchers found no evidence of less conflict or better relationships with their parents than if the children lived with one parent and saw the other on a visitation basis. California, confronted with evidence that joint custody is not always in the best interest of children, has rescinded its 1979 law of "presumptive joint custody." Joint custody has a positive side, however. Ex-spouses may fight less if they have joint custody because there is no inequity in terms of their involvement in their children's lives. Children will benefit from the resultant decrease in hostility between parents who have both "won" them. Unlike sole-parent custody, in which one parent (usually the mother) wins and the other parent loses, joint custody allows children to continue to benefit from the love and attention of both parents. Children in homes where joint custody has been awarded might also have greater financial resources available to them than children in sole-custody homes-fathers awarded joint custody are more likely to pay child support. How are the first two sentences of the passage related?
a. summary
b. cause and effect
c. generalization and example
d. contrast
D
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a. means the opposite of the unknown word. b. means the same as the unknown word. c. provides an example of the unknown word. d. defines the unknown word.
locura madness, emotiva emotional, obedecer obey.
¡Qué misterio más grande es la 8. attraction ____________________ entre dos seres humanos! ¿Quién puede explicarlo? Algunos piensan que es una 9. reaction ____________________ puramente física. Otros, en cambio, afirman que es una 10. sensation ____________________ emotiva que está basada en la buena 11. comunication ____________________. Generalmente la 12. fascination ____________________ que la persona siente es muy intensa y no obedece a la lógica. Por eso la experiencia es un poco como la locura. Además, como en el caso de la locura, no es fácil predecir la 13. duration ____________________ de esta condición, ni el resultado. A veces, termina en la 14. frustración ____________________; otras veces, termina en una boda.
Answer the oral question, using complete sentence.
Para Ud. ¿es más importante ahorrar dinero o ahorrar tiempo?
Mario piensa que las fábricas ____________________ (contaminar) demasiado el aire.
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