Question

Most European countries offer a variety of programs for assisting working parents, which include paid maternity and paternity leaves, financial allowances for families with children, and they subsidize public nurseries and kindergartens.

a. for assisting working parents, which include paid maternity and paternity leaves, financial allowances for families with children, and they subsidize
b. for the assistance of working parents, to include paid maternity and paternity leaves, also financial allowances for families with children, and subsidizing
c. in order to assist working parents, to include paid maternity and paternity leaves, financial allowances for families with children, and to subsidize
d. to assist working parents, which includes paid maternity and paternity leaves, financial allowances for families with children, and they also subsidize
e. to assist working parents, including paid maternity and paternity leaves, financial allowances for families with children, and subsidized

Answer 1

Correct option is E: to assist working parents, including paid maternity and paternity leaves, financial allowances for families with children, and subsidized

Step-by-step explanation:

Option A is not parallel as it uses "for assisting", which is wrong and thus we eliminate this option.

Option B uses "for the assistance", and this does not make the sentence clear, but instead it makes it bogus and hence we eliminate this option

Option D is also the wrong option because "to assist working parents, which includes paid maternity and paternity" makes it sound as though working parent include paid maternity etc. Hence we eliminate D.

Option C and E uses "to include" and "including" respectively, and after the comma, the best that fits the sentence is "including", which therefore eliminates option C and leaves Option E as the correct option.