“It’s not babysitting when daddy does it.” This statement was made by a young child, referring to her father taking care of her instead of a baby sitter or her mother. This child automatically believed and had a mindset at an early age that women are the main care takers when it came to rearing children, taking care of household chores and nurturing. The author of this article found the social norm to have men bring in the income while the women stay at home to care for their children and home still prevalent despite the increasing percentage of fathers staying at home caring for their children.
The article brought to light how gender roles between women and men who are caring for their children or family is viewed and how it is affecting today’s family structure. It claims that stay at home fathers are not being supported equally like that of the mothers. Fathers are also parents after all. But many men are more frequently not being seen as a primary care taker despite being the other parent. Even the U.S. Census Bureau agrees with this as they classify men as providing “care” only when both parents are in the household and the woman as the “designated parent”.
The article also revealed a few helpful and interesting statistics like how families who are above the poverty line are having a much easier time providing family care then those families who are living beneath the poverty line. However, it would have been beneficial to add some more for deeper content and to see some statistics globally perhaps. Adding some other information like interviews, surveys or graphs could have made this article much stronger.
http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/08/the-census-bureau-counts-fathers-as-child-care/?scp=5&sq=families&st=cse
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