1. This present rise in home schooling is blamed on the nature of examinations, not getting children into the school of choice, and dissatisfaction with teaching methods.
    目前家庭学校数量的增加归咎于考试的性质，不能让孩子进入选中的学校学习以及对教学方法的不满意。

2. They believe schools will be things of the past in 20 years as media technology, like the Internet, teaches children.
    他们认为由于因特网这类传播技术能够让孩子们接受教育，20年之后学校将成为昨日黄花。

3. They also play a vital role in helping parents understand the types of peer pressure their children experience.
    他们在帮助父母亲理解孩子们所经受的各种来自于同龄人的压力方面也起着重要作用。

4. The "examination hell （地狱）" imposed on children is widely criticized in Japan.
    压在孩子们身上的"考试地狱"在日本受到了广泛的谴责。

5. Their children were the center of their life.
    孩子是他们生活的中心。

6. The one possible exception is bearing children.
    惟一可能的例外就是生育能力。

7. The effort to shield assets to be passed on to children and grandchildren is making prenups more common among retired people in their 60s and 70s who are remarrying after a spouse has died.
    保护自己的资产，使之能传到儿子和孙子手中，这种努力使婚前契约在已退休并丧偶、又准备再婚的六七十岁的老人当中更为常见。

8. They took offense to my statement that a family consists of a husband, a wife and children, they said.
    她们称对我所说的家庭由夫妻和子女组成的观点感到不快。

9. There is a natural tendency for any relationship based on voluntary affection to come apart, but marriage provides the glue needed to keep a couple together by providing ties of family, in conjunction with the obligations of parents to children.
    任何建立在自发爱恋基础上的关系都会趋于自然终止，但婚姻建立起家庭纽带，以及父母与子女间的责任义务，这就提供了将夫妇联结在一起的粘合剂。

10. The trouble is, such an elastic classification ignores the problem of children and the wider problem of caring for others.
    问题是，对家庭的这种灵活的归类忽视了孩子，也忽视了关怀他人这一更广泛的问题。