Double Standard In Child-Rearing Essay

Is there a double standard in child-rearing? Yes, there is, the women are supposed to stay home while the men work. If the women are working while the men are at home the mom is seen as an unfit, or nonfunctional mother. This view is based on history way back to the cavemen. The men would go and find the food, hunt, protect their family. While the women would make the home, cook the food, care for the children, and be the gatherer of berries, or plant life. It is also something biological. Women will have a bond with the child that the man can never truly be apart of. Carrying the baby in their body and feeding the baby with their body, before and after the birth of the baby. This is a special bond, because for most of the child's life their mother is the only thing they
The difference between the two genders as massive. Women tended to score higher in sensitivity, warmth, and apprehension, all good traits for raising a child. While men scored higher in emotional stability, dominance, rule-consciousness, and vigilance. Now this does not mean that all women have these traits and all men have these other traits. This simply means that the majority of are higher in sensitivity than in emotional stability. As a young woman, I agree because I am very prone to mood swings, but not all women are. When Jessica Valenti said some women were met with a confused face when they said they did not want children, she said it was judgment. I think it is because it is rare, but becoming more popular today among women. There is a difference in how mothers are seen then how fathers are seen, but that is because we are different. We can not really be equal because then there would be no man and woman, there would only be human. We will always be different physically and mentally, I do not see that as a bad thing. It means that together with our differences make us