TEXTO:
You will be a parent to your parents
Modern American households are coming to
resemble those of centuries past, when it was the norm
for multiple generations to live under the same roof.
Census data show that the number of U.S. households
[5] with three or more generations increased by 38 percent
between 1990 and 2000.
Between 2000 and 2007, the number of parents
living in the homes of their adult children increased by a
whopping 67 percent. In other cases, grown children with
[10] families of their own are moving back into a parent’s
house. Experts say harsh economic realities like high
housing costs and low incomes are probably a driving
force behind the trend. “It is so much less expensive to
have one kitchen, one living room, one dwelling to heat,”
[15] says Frances Goldscheider, professor emeritus of
sociology at Brown. “If you can manage to be polite to
each other … you can get all the benefits of the reduced
costs.” Other forces at work include immigration — certain
cultures favor extended-family living — and increased
[20] longevity, since multigenerational households can care
for aging parents.
According to futurist Andrew Zolli, people born after
1975 could end up taking care of their mothers longer
than their mothers took care of them, since women in
[25] that generation are likely to live more than 18 years into
retirement, when they are most likely to need help of
some kind from their children. Philip Cohen, author of
the upcoming book Family: Diversity, Inequality and
Social Change, predicts that the economic downturn will
[30] contribute further to the rise in multigenerational living.
“Especially with foreclosures and people losing their
homes, where do people turn?” he asks. “They’re most
likely to go to their families first.”
Yarret, Ian. You will be a parent to your parents. Newsweek, New York, p. 52, 24 & 31, 2009.
Fill in the parentheses with T (True) or F (False).
The text says that multigenerational households
( ) are becoming usual in the United States nowadays.
( ) will still take a long time to be accepted by the American society.
( ) weren’t common in the United States some centuries ago.
( ) are unheard-of in any other culture.
According to the text, the correct sequence, from top to bottom, is
