Personal Life
Marriage and Family
January 5, 2012 | 
Author Hello Pals!
Generally in United States, there is no specific rules or laws for marriage or children about how many children a couple can have, whether a woman must take her husband’s name or what name children are allowed to call. The average number of children comes out to two to four and you will sometimes hear a couple with two to four children used to mean as average family. Most of the women hyphenate their last names when they marry, for example, if Susan Smith marries Bill Jones, then she becomes Susan Smith-Jones and their children, however, usually have the father’s last name. Families are modern and difficult in the United States. The divorce rate is 1 out of 2 marriages, so there are a lot of families with only one parent or with stepparents.
Women usually work at least part-time outside the home, and so many children who are too young for school spend their days in some day care centers. Most of the families try to eat their meal together at home during the evening period, but this is often not possible because of work schedules or school activities. There are also many couples who live together without being married or live together for a period of time before they marry and this relationship is sometimes called as a term “partner”. Homosexual couples with children are increasingly common, although mostly in large cities where people tend to be a little more open-minded.
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Political Correctness
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America is recognized as a land of political truthfulness, so that you must be very careful with your verbal communication to avoid aberrant anyone. Actually, most Americans think that a little compassion to issues of race, gender and sexual orientation is a good idea but actually it does not mean that they are watching every thing they say. In general, Americans may seem quite willing to discuss about sexual matters and family oriented problems with most people, judging by the huge number of informative talk shows on television, but they are found to be exception somewhat than the rule. But, whereas in other countries they feel that sex is a very personal matter and not usually a subject of conversation during the party and it is also not well-mannered to ask anyone other than a child how old they are.
But, certain conditions have however made their way into each one American English and are viewed as normal, rather than the correct but unusual way of saying something. This is probably most true of terms such as sexist, actor, server and letter carrier as actress, waitress, and mailman. People are also more careful and cautious when referring to Americans of nonwhite racial or ethnic origin. Terms like African-American, Mexican American and Asian-American are now frequently used rather than preferred to someone as being handicapped, because it is best to say that they have a disability or they are disabled.
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