As a child, I grew to learn my adopted mother 's beliefs because she is Christian that gender is being born male or female with characteristics pertaining to his or her gender role. According to Wood (2015), "Gender is a classification that society makes, and, for most people, it endures throughout their lives," (p.21). According to society an infant who is female will wear the most common color pink and a male should wear blue. Our parents were taught the same conception that as a female we are to behave in a certain way and a male 's behavior doesn 't have to be concise as ours should.
A male adapts the common characteristics as an infant to detach himself from his mother and learn to attach to his father. He grows up learning that he has to be brave, tough, and hold back his …show more content…
I did not grow up living the customary life with the traditional family, such as two parents, two children and a dog. I was put in foster care at the age of three because my biological mother could not raise me because of personal demons she was battling with at the time. "Psychodynamic theories claim that the first relationship we have fundamentally influences how we define our identity, including gender," (Wood, 2015, p.43). I recall a moment when I was three years old I watched my biological mother put on red lipstick and when she left the room I put it on as well. I grew up in a city where all I saw was mainly my own race and Hispanics. The first time I was surrounded by diversity is when I went to live with my aunt in California for a couple of months. I finally lived in a balanced home where I later was adopted into the family at the age of 9. I had one parent, which was my mother and five other adopted siblings who had gone through situations similar to my own. I was the youngest out of all my brothers and sisters and learned that I had a decision to either fit where I belong or fit somewhere else where I don
A male adapts the common characteristics as an infant to detach himself from his mother and learn to attach to his father. He grows up learning that he has to be brave, tough, and hold back his …show more content…
I did not grow up living the customary life with the traditional family, such as two parents, two children and a dog. I was put in foster care at the age of three because my biological mother could not raise me because of personal demons she was battling with at the time. "Psychodynamic theories claim that the first relationship we have fundamentally influences how we define our identity, including gender," (Wood, 2015, p.43). I recall a moment when I was three years old I watched my biological mother put on red lipstick and when she left the room I put it on as well. I grew up in a city where all I saw was mainly my own race and Hispanics. The first time I was surrounded by diversity is when I went to live with my aunt in California for a couple of months. I finally lived in a balanced home where I later was adopted into the family at the age of 9. I had one parent, which was my mother and five other adopted siblings who had gone through situations similar to my own. I was the youngest out of all my brothers and sisters and learned that I had a decision to either fit where I belong or fit somewhere else where I don