Gender Role Influence

Gender Role Influenced by Parents
Children get familiar with gender roles through several ways, such as parents' behaviors, school education and media images, and then try to make adaption to those models society desires. Parents play the most influential role when young people developing the ideas about gender. For one things, parents having a plenty of time getting along with kids, children easily accept the silent transforming effect of the interaction, which changes itself into the basic concept viewing gender roles. For instance, even though there are advertisements showing a father makes dinner or looks after children, people tend to think of the picture mothers attending to her kids more naturally. On the other hand, opinions about
what girls and boys should be like possessed by parents also exert a profound effect. A mother may ask her girl that she cannot have worse handwriting than her brothers, and a father may frown at his boy when he screams because of a cockroach. Through modeling and sanctions, children meet the gender