Question

QQ44. Directions for the following 4 (four) items : Read the following two passages and answer the items that follow the passages. Your answers to these items should be based on the passages only. Passage When a child reaches adolescence, there is apt to be a conflict between the parents and the child, since the latter considers himself to be by now quite capable of managing his own affairs, while the former are filled with parental solicitude, which is often a disguise for love of power. Parents consider, usually, that the various moral problems which arise in adolescence are peculiarly their province. The options they express, however, are so dogmatic that the young seldom confide in them, and usually go their own way in secret. Which one of the following statements best reflects the central idea of the above passage?

Options

1. A Parents in general may not be of much help when children are on their way to becoming adults.
2. B When children reach adolescence, involvement of parents in their lives is unnecessary.
3. C Modern-day nuclear families are not capable of bringing up children properly.
4. D In modern societies, adolescents tend to be stubborn, disobedient and careless.