In the four narratives that I read there is not really any contradictory evidence. In fact, a lot of the points made in one were also made in the other narratives. One thing that all the narratives talked about was having shared roles between the two parents. It states in narrative five, “We must share equally all the daily chores and financial burdens. He must do as much child caring as I will do” and it states something similar in narrative one, “Michael is a very supportive husband. He helps out a lot around the house and he even does all the cooking and cleaning” and in narrative three, “My husband picks up the children from soccer practice and ballet class”. I thought that this was interesting evidence because in the past and in gender stereotypes, the mothers would be the one taking care of the parenting and children and the fathers would be bringing in the financial part. But in all four narratives it talked about shared roles. I think that it is pretty consistent because most people’s goals in life are to be married and have children and society almost has a certain way to accomplish and carry out those goals. One thing you could look more into …show more content…
I can do what I want, on my own schedule. This too will enable me to spend time with my children”. Thus, saying that she will still make time for her children even though she will be working while they are young. Also in narrative eight the writer said that she would be working from home and stated this, “I don't intend to put my children into day care while they're young -- that's why free-lance writing is so appealing to me, because it's something I'm thoroughly addicted to that I can do out of the