Religious and moral studies tell us that the role of parents is to ensure that their child/children become adults who belief in God, has good moral sense, be good to others and contribute to the betterment of society and the world. Traditionally, the father is the breadwinner and the mother is the homemaker; the roles of both parents were spelt out clearly.
But, in modern day, with both parents working outside the home, the roles are not clearly stated and sometimes role reversal happens. Although role reversal helps to eliminate gender stereotyping or gender bias, would there be any issue of gender/sexual identity in later life?
I find that very few families are 'traditional' these days, i.e. father goes to work, mother stays at home to parent (or at least is in charge of most of the parenting, even if she works).
ReplyDeleteIt's come to the point that I'm extremely sensitive when asking kids about their families, because I'm worried if their parents are divorced, or deceased, or even 'less-than-good' parents.
A side note on gender role reversals: I think females going into male roles have it much easier than males going into 'female' roles. :)
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Mark
http://earlychildcare.wordpress.com
Yes, I think so too. Societal rules and it would be difficult to change (don't think it will happen in our generation, maybe next...?). Nevertheless, we live our own life, who cares what others think so long as we are happy :-)
ReplyDeleteWell, since you said that, I can safely say:
ReplyDeleteWhat 'our' generation, I thought I'm much younger than you! :)
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Mark
http://earlychildcare.wordpress.com
Oops, sorry to generalize. You, the younger generation, is already starting to make the change and all you need now is to advocate and propagate it widely enough until people accept it. And of course to do this, you need to round up all male practitioners; start a community or society for male practitioners? I read a book about how people influence others (by Robert Cialdini) and he said that if people see or read about something often enough, they will tend to believe and accept it without references or questions; works much better with authority (so get your masters, PhD and when you talk, people will listen).
ReplyDeleteOh, that's a really good book. I was reading it halfway over Christmas, but got sidetracked by other books. And now I've got all my assignments to do.
ReplyDeleteA society of male practitioners. :) Only just recently, there is someone working towards it in the UK. I don't reception has been very good. The guy did agree to appear on my blog, but he never did. =-P
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Mark
http://earlychildcare.wordpress.com