When someone hears the words ‘family’ and ‘marriage,’ they could have many different kinds of thoughts regarding the two topics. They’re the kind of words with definitions that are always changing because of how personal they are. People will think of their own experiences with the two, whether they are good or bad, but how often do they think about it from a different perspective? How often do they consider societal influence on our beliefs in what family and marriage are, or how diverse family and marriage truly are? Family life and marriage may seem like simple concepts on the surface, but each family contains some aspect that makes it unique; whether it be the amount of parents, the amount of children, or the type of people. Family, from
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I saw this with gender roles specifically in mind, the obvious stereotypes beings that in a family consisting of, let’s say a mother, a father, and two children, the mother does housework, the father works, and depending on the ages and genders of the interacting siblings, they have their assumed parts as well. There are plenty of families in which these are flipped (mine included), or just in general different, but, what had to happen to disrupt the clichéd image on a personal scale? I learned some possibilities through my interviews, particularly the one with my …show more content…
As a result of being with his mother most of the time, my father grew up to model himself after her, as children in single-parent homes tend to do. As his mother did so much work, he learned that that was an important part of family life that he could take part in. On the flipside, my mother was raised being given things just for asking, so she began accustomed to people doing things for her. The combination of the two results in my father taking up housework because he sees it as his role and my mother not very often assisting because that’s hers. And, seeing as I see my father as a bigger influence on me than my mother, I’ll likely retain a feeling of obligation to do housework for my own family. This is interesting to think about, because it very much supports the thought that while harmful stereotyping of families exists, it is much more likely individuals are more impacted by their own personal experience than by what society tells them is
I saw this with gender roles specifically in mind, the obvious stereotypes beings that in a family consisting of, let’s say a mother, a father, and two children, the mother does housework, the father works, and depending on the ages and genders of the interacting siblings, they have their assumed parts as well. There are plenty of families in which these are flipped (mine included), or just in general different, but, what had to happen to disrupt the clichéd image on a personal scale? I learned some possibilities through my interviews, particularly the one with my …show more content…
As a result of being with his mother most of the time, my father grew up to model himself after her, as children in single-parent homes tend to do. As his mother did so much work, he learned that that was an important part of family life that he could take part in. On the flipside, my mother was raised being given things just for asking, so she began accustomed to people doing things for her. The combination of the two results in my father taking up housework because he sees it as his role and my mother not very often assisting because that’s hers. And, seeing as I see my father as a bigger influence on me than my mother, I’ll likely retain a feeling of obligation to do housework for my own family. This is interesting to think about, because it very much supports the thought that while harmful stereotyping of families exists, it is much more likely individuals are more impacted by their own personal experience than by what society tells them is