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1. Nguyễn Thụy Bảo Trâm
2. Lưu Huyền Trâm
3. Phạm Trần Bảo Trâm
4. Lê Thụy Thanh Thư
5. Tô Ny Thông
 The contemporary American Marriage
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Traditional marriage roles:
+ The man as breadwinner (money earner), and the
woman as homemaker.

Nguyễn Thụy Bảo Trâm

However, in 1960s, with the women’s liberation movement
had changed the people’s attitudes and behavior forever.

Today’s young American woman wants to:

+ Keeps her own identity
+ Pursue her individual goals

Nguyễn Thụy Bảo Trâm

 How has The women’s liberation
affected the American marriage?
It changed American’s attitudes and behavior
about women’s role
It changed how women were perceived in their
cultures, redefined the socio-economic and the
political roles of women in society
The older idea that housework, cooking and
child care are “women’s work” is being
discarded
Nguyễn Thụy Bảo Trâm
In a Contemporary American
Marriage, husband and wife share
both financial and domestic
responsibilities.
In most families, the working wife
probably still handles the larger
share of the housework . But she
gets some help from the husband.
Nguyễn Thụy Bảo Trâm
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Sharing money-making and housekeeping

responsibilities provides a better life for
both parents.

Lưu Huyền Trâm

Lưu Huyền Trâm
Lưu Huyền Trâm
 However, problems can
develop in the two-income
family if the husband
expects his working wife to
be the perfect homemaker
that his stay-at-home mother
was.

The two-income family: a family that gets money

from two separate incomes, such as an income from
the father and mother.
Lưu Huyền Trâm
 Also, there may be arguments if the wife expects
her husband to help with household chores, but he
is unwilling to do so.

Lưu Huyền Trâm

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The contemporary American

marriage is also characterized by a
relationship of

Shared
Equality
decision
making

Lưu Huyền Trâm

Most American women today will not tolerate a
husband who considers himself as a boss.

Lưu Huyền Trâm

The American girl is given freedom and
education equal to a boy’s

Lưu Huyền Trâm

Because she is self-sufficient so she
doesn’t need to marry for financial
security and won’t accept a submissive
role in a marriage.

Lưu Huyền Trâm

Share decision Respect each
making other’s viewpoints

Lưu Huyền Trâm

Battle for
dominance

Lưu Huyền Trâm

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- In one study in 1999, only 38% of the Americans
questioned identified themselve as “very happy”

- The U.S divorce rate is twice that of Europe and three times
higher than Japan's.

- Americans don't consider marriage a casual, unimportant

relationship.

- In marriage, they always seek physical, emotional,

intellectual compatibility. They wanted to be deeply loved
and understood.

- Americans believe that they end one marriage hoping that

the next will be happier.
Phạm Trần Bảo Trâm
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Lê Thụy Thanh Thư

 When a couple gets divorced, the man to pay his
former wife a monthly sum of money called alimony.
🔽 Depends on the husband’s icome
🔽 If the women earns a good salary, she may receive
no alimony at all.
🔽 Occasionally, a woman should pay her husband
alimony.
🔽 If the woman has supported her husband, the
court may decide that she must cotinue to support
him after the divorce.

Alimony [ˈælɪməni]: a husband's

or wife's court-ordered provision
for a spouse after separation or
divorce.

Lê Thụy Thanh Thư

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If a divorcing couple has children :

🔽 The children will live with the mother or the father
🔽 The children live with the mother and the father pays
child support and has visitation right.
🔽 The father to get full custody or joint custody.

determine
[dɪˈtɜːmɪn]
custody
[ˈkʌstədi

Lê Thụy Thanh Thư

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Remarriage and the creation of new :

🔽 The hight rish of divorce doesn’t seem to make
Americans aftraid to marry again.
🔽 Blended families is extremely common in the U.S.

blended
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The number of people living alternative lifestyles is

increasing fast.
+Their behavior is increasingly accepted by the
general population.

Number of opposite-sex unmarried couple living

together (cohabitation) rose from about half a million
(1970) to about 8.5 million today (updated 2018 figures).

The gay population’s lifestyle is also considered

alternative.
+The percentage of same-sex couples in America is
about 4.5% (updated 2017 figures)
Tô Ny Thông
 Check your comprehension:

Why do so many Americans

get divorced?

 Because Americans expect too

much from marriage.

Tô Ny Thông
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Happy anniversary
Americans celebrate the completion of each successful
year of marriage.
Married couples celebrate most of their wedding
anniversaries rather quietly.
But certain anniversaries – especially the 25th and 50th– are
considered more important and are commonly celebrated
with big parties.
A particular type of gift is traditional for each
anniversaries, though this tradition is usually ignored,
except for the 25th, when silver is given, and the 50th, when
a gift of gold is traditional.
Tô Ny Thông
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