In a fmily where the roles of men and women are not sharply sparate and where many houschold tasks are shared to a greater or less extent, cocepts of male supeoririty are hard to mainain. The pattern of sharing in tasks and in decsions makes for equality, and this in turn leads to further sharing. In such a home, the growing boy and girl learn to accept that equality more easily than did their parents and to prepare more fully for participation in a world characterized by coperaton rather than by “battle of the es”If the process goes too far and man’s role is regarded as less important and that has happened in some cases, we are as badly off as before, only in reverse.It is time to re-estimate the role of the man in the American family. We are geting a little tired of “Monism”(一元论), but we don’t want to exchange it for a “new-Monism”. What we need, rather, is the recognition that bringing up children involves a partnership of equals. There are signs that psychologists, social workers, and specialists in family are becoming more aware of the part men play. We have almost given up saying that a woman’s place is in the home. We are beginning, however, to yze man’s place in the home and to insist that he does have a place in it. Nor is that place irrelevant to the healthy development of the child. The family is co-operative enterprise for which it is dfficult to lay down rules, because each family needs to work out its own ways for solving its own problems. Excessive authority has unhappy consequences, whether it wears skirts or trousers; the ideal of equal rights and equal responsibilies is relative not only to a healthy democracy, but also to a healthy family.Q:The main topic of this passage is .