Equal Responsibility in parenting
Andrew Nguyen
Professor Marilyn Brock
English 102
7 October, 2013
Equal Responsibility In raising a child, both parents should share equal responsibility. From the start of humanity, it has always been thought that women should take care of the children while the men were the breadwinners. However, things have changed now and both parents have began to take equal responsibilities of their children. Parenting is a two person concept and does not mean one parent can take on more of the responsibility of a child’s development. The roles of the mother and the father play a different part in parenting. Daughters look up to their father as an ideal husband and sons look up to their father as a role model. Both daughters and sons look up to their mother as an individual with endless love to give. Both roles help one another in creating a healthy child.
When there is no equal responsibility in raising a child, the child would learn to love one more than the other. If a child is being raised by only one parent because the other is busy at work or etc, the child is spending more quality time with that parent only. Both parents don’t share the same amount of time with the child thus; the child’s love is not equal for both. When the responsibility of a child is dependent upon one parent because the other parent does not have enough time, often the child becomes a misfit. Both parents must take equal part in the responsibility for a healthy child. Statistics show, being raised by two parents equally allow the child to have a higher chance of growing up normal (Rosenburg).
God made the birth of a child to be between a male and a female. Both sexes took part in making the child, so both should be equally responsible for the child. The child is not owned more by either parent, and it would be unfair for one parent to take more responsibility than the other. According to Carry Fitness, an online website on healthy lifestyle, “As times change, mothers change to meet
Professor Marilyn Brock
English 102
7 October, 2013
Equal Responsibility In raising a child, both parents should share equal responsibility. From the start of humanity, it has always been thought that women should take care of the children while the men were the breadwinners. However, things have changed now and both parents have began to take equal responsibilities of their children. Parenting is a two person concept and does not mean one parent can take on more of the responsibility of a child’s development. The roles of the mother and the father play a different part in parenting. Daughters look up to their father as an ideal husband and sons look up to their father as a role model. Both daughters and sons look up to their mother as an individual with endless love to give. Both roles help one another in creating a healthy child.
When there is no equal responsibility in raising a child, the child would learn to love one more than the other. If a child is being raised by only one parent because the other is busy at work or etc, the child is spending more quality time with that parent only. Both parents don’t share the same amount of time with the child thus; the child’s love is not equal for both. When the responsibility of a child is dependent upon one parent because the other parent does not have enough time, often the child becomes a misfit. Both parents must take equal part in the responsibility for a healthy child. Statistics show, being raised by two parents equally allow the child to have a higher chance of growing up normal (Rosenburg).
God made the birth of a child to be between a male and a female. Both sexes took part in making the child, so both should be equally responsible for the child. The child is not owned more by either parent, and it would be unfair for one parent to take more responsibility than the other. According to Carry Fitness, an online website on healthy lifestyle, “As times change, mothers change to meet
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