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When you …… (read) this article, somewhere in the United States two couples will get married and another two ……(get divorced). One of three American children now ……(live) with only one parent, and the United States ……(not/be) alone here: in Canada and France the divorce rate …… (double) in the last twenty-five years. Even in Japan, where the traditional family …… (be) still strong, divorce rate. …… (go) up by 15 per cent between 1985 and 2000.
What is more, the nature of the family ……(change). In Sweden and Denmark, around half of all babies now …… (be born) to unmarried parents, and in the United Kingdom and France more than a third. Although Ireland ……(be) strongly Catholic, quite a lot of Irish people now …… (have) children without getting married. Families ……. (get) smaller. The average Turkish family ……… (have) seven members in 1980; today it ……(have) only five. And in Spain and Italy, where families …… (be) always traditionally large, the birthrate was the lowest in the developed world in 1999.
This fall in the birthrate …… (be) due in part to the fact that more and more women prefer careers and are waiting longer and longer to start a family. The age at which the average woman. ……. (have ) her first baby is now 28 in Western Europe, and it …… (get) later.

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