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1. The text “The man who rocks the cradle” is an article written by Andy Beckett. The article presents two men, Simon and Elos, who are on their way to Gregory House. The drop-in session is a municipal building where there are rooms with toys for the children, advice to the fathers, and the company of other fathers. Since the last years of the 90s, British fathers were largely characterized by their absence, but now the government has introduced paid paternity leave and give fathers right to work flexible or part-time. The reason why is that women have entered the labour market, and also that people becomes older and older before getting a child. The overall result is that a third of the British fathers spend more time with their children. But still a significant minority of fathers does not use paternity leave as they are permitted.
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2. After the British government introduced paid paternity leave, many British fathers spend more time with their children, which is quite remarkable. But is the paternity leave so important, and does the British government make changes in children’s childhood by letting the fathers get leave?
In the article “Parenting: From Boys To Men To Fatherhood” written by Shirley Henderson, studies conducted by the National Fatherhood Initiative in Gaithersburg, Md., indicate that Black males who grow up fatherless are more likely to have problems in school, to become violent criminals and are more likely to commit suicide. These statements are completely in common with Karl Zinsmeister’s, and furthermore he points at problems which causes the family. Zinmeister is from the American Enterprise Institute and said that crisis dealing with drugs, early pregnancy and education crisis is because of broken families. While these problems are indicated Professor Charlie Lewis of Lancaster University, who has been studying British fathers since the last 70s, cannot see a significant differ of the equality occurring by the parenting: “Men want to associate themselves with a sexual equality agenda[…] Fathers say, ‘I’ll do the parenting on Mondays.’ But what about the other six days of the week?” (ll. 32-34 p. 2-3) Therefor the mothers still do the major part of parenting despite the paternity leave and the fathers role in paranting are still not fully presented.
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3. The statement, “… the breakdown of the family is at the root of nearly every other social problem”, is from text 3, “As the family goes, so goes society”. In 19th and 20th centuries families were very important to the children. Males often followed their father’s footsteps, and didn’t think outside the box, and females were often prepared to do the homework. People in general were much more social, and dependent of their families. But in 21th century the society is quite different. I totally disagreeing the statement, because the new generations are individual and liberal persons thinking in their own way and on their own future. The relationship between the children and the families are much more weaken than before. In my opinion it is better that parents who constantly bickering are getting divorced. Problems at home makes children’s childhood much more impaired and makes the children confused in their daily life. I think these crisis at home makes the children more unstable, and the probability of them falling in drug problems and getting problems with their educations are much higher than divorced parents.
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Maternity leave, paternity leave - or both?

In the last 20 years the responsibility for children’s upbringing is almost equal independent of gender. Both parents take maternity/paternity leave, but is that important?

Normally we here about mothers taking maternity leave, but in the last years it has been more and more common that both parents take leaves. Especially after the British government introduced the society to the paternity leave. The responsibility for upbringing of a child is the same for the mother as it is for the father. The child need both parents which results in that the child becomes closely associated and gets values from both genders. But what the very important thing is, is the financial side. It could be expensive upbringing a child. When both parents take leave the budget will be very tight, and therefor it could be important that one of the parents work. But who says that paternity leave is important? Couldn’t the father be a part of the child’s upbringing if he works?

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Dit summary fungerer ok, men det virker meget som om, du forsøger at gabe over alt for meget I opgave 2! Dels er besvarelsen alt for rodet i sin struktur, dels er det som om du gerne vil skrive i et sprog, du ikke helt mestrer. Du kommer – med dine komplicerede sætningskonstruktioner – til at miste overblikket, og det samme gør læseren så også.
Jeg kunne godt have tænkt mig noget mere ”diskussion i opg. 4, altså pros og cons i forbindelse med forældreorlov. Du kommer lidt for ”let” om ved det.
Som du kan se af mine kommentarer, er der i din besvarelse generelt for mange elementære fejl som kongruens, manglende artikler, ufuldstændige verballed mm.
Jeg kan ikke helt finde ud af, om det hænger sammen med valget af tekster – artiklerne – eller om det er generelt. Det overrasker mig i alle tilfælde, at du har SÅ mange elementære fejl.
Jeg har lige tjekket dine to forrige afleveringer, og du har generelt problemer med grammatikken. Du kan med fordel forsøge at gøre dine sætningskonstruktioner enklere. Undlad alt for mange underordnede sætninger. Det gør det MEGET svært at bevare overblikket, og jeg synes, du skal få bedre styr på grammatikken, før du ”højner” sætningskonstruktionen.
Pudsigt nok roser jeg din outline meget i exam paper 2, og det er så måske fordi du har fokus andre steder for tiden (det ved jeg jo, at du har). Derfor er det måske bedre at skrive den lidt ”enklere” B-tekstdel??
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