Twenty years ago, the typical family usually consisted of two or three generations, with many children. According to a new study by the British research group Mintel, the family is changing shape. The family groups of the future will be long and thin', with three or four small generations.
Here are some of their predictions:
1 Very few children … (to have) brothers or sisters, and it … (to be common) to be an only child.
2 Many children … (to grow up) isolated from other children and young adults. This will … (to make) them more selfish and introverted.
3 More couples … (to divorce and to remarry), some more than once. So many children … (to have) a stepmother or stepfather and half-brothers or sisters.
4 There … (to be many) 'boomerang children". These are children … (to leave) home to get married, but then they (to divorce and to return) to live with their parents.
5 There … (to be) more single-parent families.
