Week # 10 Fathers and Finances

What stood out to me from this reading and the class discussion was the reemergence of the importance of our gender roles and the proclamation. Although women have gained more independence and somewhat equal rights in the workforce their primary role according to the family proclamation should provide and care for their children. It is still vital that they should do their best to get an education in case an incidence should occur so that they can provide for their family as a backup plan. The chapter discusses the challenges of dual incomes families. It essential states that those who engage in such a situation that it is basically counter product in the goal in which they want to work to have more money and resources.  It also talks about the fact that it puts too much stress and responsibilities on a mother to do both work and be a successful mother.

Father’s like mother are crucial to the socialization and psychological well-being of their children. There are many contributions the father brings to the table or family in this case, active fathers not only provide for their children’s necessities, but they also bring security and comfort for both their sons and their daughters. They provide their sons with an ideal model of what it means to be a male whereas they provide their daughter with an example of how their husbands should be or treat them. These active fathers also are able to provide their children with financial resources which as an effect provide their children with better opportunities in life would be generally not be available. In addition, the father provides another parenting style which provides them another model of how to resolve conflict between their two parents working together to get an issue resolved this will set the precedent in their little lives. I would love to see how my life would be different if my father would have fulfilled his responsibilities how my life would be different.