Women Are Better Parents Than Men

Women make better parents than men and this is the reason why they have the greater role in raising children in most societies. Others claim that men are just as good as women at parenting.

Introduction
A quality relationship between parents and their children is the most important thing in a family and in children’s development. For parents, the most precious asset of their life will always be their children. As a result, their priorities will be to raise their children’s to become better people and acceptable in the society. As parents, raising a child is not an easy job because of the fact that children need a lot of attention from their parent for their well being and sometimes can be very demanding in their nature.

By nature, men and women play different roles in raising a child. There is a saying that “men make house, women make a home”. In like manner, most of the time men have the responsibility to provide food for the family and it is the duty of the women to raise their kids and this trend have proceeded through the history until now. Although, this does not mean that men are not capable of raising or parenting their children. It is a well know fact that women make better parents than men and which I agree very strongly.

Parenting The mother is the most enduring entity, and mother child relationship is the most beautiful relation in this world. As Arnold (2012), explain in his book,
A true mother thinks day and night about the well-being of her children. She is the first to praise and comfort them and is also the first to protect them when she senses danger. It is she who has carried them and borne the pains of pregnancy and childbirth, and it is she who now continues to carry them in her heart. (p. 29)
Even though, with the difficulties and pain she goes through during those nine months, the excitement of pregnancy till the birth a mother experience cannot be understood by anyone else, other than a mother. Even though fatherhood begins before the birth of a child by showing love, caring, and understanding to her pregnant wife, even still, a father cannot build that closeness ever, like a mother have with her child. I will never forget the day my son was born. I was holding her hand and supporting through the process when she was giving birth to our child. The pain a woman go through during the delivery time and also the long and difficult nine months they carry the child is unimaginable. This is why I believe that a mother in the most important person who can raise a child with the kindness a child seeks in their childhood and life.

Parental love is the most important thing a child is always hunger of. A true home to a child is only created when both the parents are ready to give their hearts and minds to their children in front of them. From the very first day it is the mother who takes the lead role in taking care of her child with her tender hands, her soothing voice, and most importantly when a child knows the mother as a source of food and comfort all through childhood. Though, the father will be present most of the time supporting her during the early childhood, but still it is the mother who is the main instrument of transmitting love to the child. Consequently, it is the mother that the child gets more attached and feel comfortable rather than the father.

As the children’s grow older it is, most of the time, the mother who will be present at home to look after them. Mothers tend to do all the household work such as cooking, feeding them, giving them a shower etc.…. On the other hand it is the father's duty or responsibility to earn or do work so that he can put food on the table for his family and for this he have to spend most of the time outside the home. As a result mothers gets more time to spend with the children’s and it leads them to be more attached to their mother rather than the father.

Women are considered more sensitive than men because it is in their nature to be gentler and more tolerant than men. Therefore they know how to conduct flexibility in handling children’s needs which eventually gives them the advantage of being better parents. When raising a child, parents are encouraged to undertake gentle manner which will have a positive influence on them. In general, men usually prove to be aggressor than women. And also often fathers confuse a child hunger for love and attention and finally ending up buying them gifts and other material things, when what the child really want is a hug, a smile or a bedtime story. According to Love (2007), stated in his article that, “The most wonderful gift that a child can receive from a parent is the firm knowledge that the parent loves him or her totally no matter what he or she does and no matter what happens.” This is also an evidence to prove that it is the love that a child seeks more from their parents and that is why mother’s plays an important raising their family rather than the father.

Conclusion

A quality relationship between parents and their children is vitally important for a happy family. Every parents ultimate goal is to raise their children’s to become acceptable citizens in the society. And to achieve this goal as parents they need to give them unconditional love and caring which they are hunger of. Due to the fact that women are more gentle and kind hearted than men, proves them to be better parents than men. In a family a woman plays the most important role to raise the children and they are the backbone of the family.