In a family where the roles of women and men are not sharply separated, notions of male superiority are hard to maintain. The pattern of sharing in tasks and in decisions makes for equality, and this【B1】______leads to further sharing. In such a home, the【B2】______boy and girl learn to【B3】______the equality more easily than did their parents and to prepare more fully for【B4】______in a world characterized by cooperation【B5】______by the 'battle of the sexes'. 【B6】______the process goes too far and mans role is regarded as【B7】______important and that has happened in some cases—we are badly off as before, only【B8】______reverse. It is time to【B9】______the role of the American family. We are getting tired of 'Momism' but we dont want to【B10】______it for a 'neo-Popism'. What we need, rather, is【B11】______that bringing up children involves a partnership of equals. There are signs that experts on the family are【B12】______of the part men play and that they have decided that woman should not receive all the【B13】______—nor all the blame. We have almost【B14】______saying that a womans place is in the home. We are beginning,【B15】______, to analyze mens place in the home and to insist that he does have a place in it. Nor is that place【B16】______to the healthy development of the child. The family is a co-operative enterprise for which it is difficult to【B17】______rules, because each family needs to work to its own ways for【B18】______its own problems. Excessive authoritarianism has unhappy【B19】______, whether it wears skirts or trousers, and the【B20】______of equal rights and equal responsibilities is connected not only with a healthy democracy, but also with a healthy family. 【B1】