[originaltext]M: Hello, Ruth. Nice to see you again. You seem to be very busy r

M: Hello, Ruth. Nice to see you again. You seem to be very busy recently, aren’t you?
W: Hey, Mike. You’re right. I am busy with my essay.
M: What are you writing about? Do you mind telling me something about it?
W: Sure, of course not. I am doing some research about the relationship between parents and children.
M: Really? Say something in more detail.
W: Haven’t you noticed that there are more and more parents just staying at home, taking care of their children full-time instead of working out?
M: Sure, that’s more and more common. So what do you think about stay-at-home parents?
W: Like one parent staying at home with a child?
M: Yeah, one parent staying at home and the other one working.
W: Ah, I think it’s really bad if a child stays at home with one parent actually.
M: Really? Why would you say that?
W: I think children who are brought up (抚养) like that generally don’t know how to socialize (社交，交际) with other people except for their parents.
M: Oh, well, why would you think that?
W: Well, they’re really not given the opportunity to interact with different people. I mean, they spend pretty much all day, every day, with that one parent, and I think it’s a real shame. They don’t learn how to share or, you know, how to get along with and talk to different people.
M: Well, I think that the child will actually get more interaction if there’s a stay-at-home parent. Because the parent will be able to take him to different activities and to other houses to have playmates at the same time. He’ll be able to spend more time with that parent and have socializing time with family members.
W: But I think children could get those same experiences from different people who look after them. It wouldn’t necessarily have to be their family members who look after them surely.
M: Well, sure. But I think that it’s different when a person who is not related takes care of a child. I’m sure that they do their best, but the love is not there. The caretaker (照看人，看管人) would not love the child as much as the parent would, and if there’s one person taking care of ten different children at the same time, 1 would wonder about the amount of attention that the child would get and safety issues (安全问题) as well.
W: But I think you’ve got to look at the practical aspect of this. It’s not always practical for people who don’t have much money to have one parent staying at home all of the time.
M: That’s true. I really agree about that.
W: Oh, it’s good we agree on one thing.
1. What is the woman’s essay about?
2. Why does the woman say that it’s bad if a child stays at home with one parent?
3. What does the man say about the child staying at home with one parent?
4. What does the man think about caretakers taking care of children?
5. What do the speakers agree on?