1. Where the raising of children and the investment of both parents in the children's lives were guaranteed by bonds of friendship between the parents, which were based on rational love.
    在这样的家庭里，父母间由于理性的爱所带来的友好关系保证了他们能共同抚养孩子和共同在孩子身上投入。

2. I am aware of the complex research concerning the effects of divorce on children
    我注意到一些关于离婚对孩子的影响的综合性研究。

3. When the majority of the children murdered in this country are killed by their parents, many of whom say they were trying to discipline the child for behavior like blocking the TV or crying too much, it suggests a demand for basic emotional education
    当这个国家里死去的孩子大多死于父母之手，而这样的父母大都说他们是想规范孩子的行为，要他们不要挡着电视，不要大哭不休，当发生了这些现象，这就意味着需要进行基本的情感教育。

4. Father was an austere man, very strict with his children.
    父亲是个严厉的人, 对子女十分严格。

5. For many years she has been puzzled as to why so many of the children in her study should be boys — at the top level, there are more boys than girls by a ratio of thirteen to one.
    多年来，她对为何她的研究中有那么多的男孩感到困惑 -- 高级组中男孩女孩之比为13比1。