How Does a Country’s Policies and Culture Impact Mothers?
What does the title of “mother” entail?
What does motherhood mean? In the United States, we know it as a second shift. In most cases, and while we are trying to move away from traditional gender roles, it often means a mother picks up the kids after work, goes home, does housework, prepares the meals, and is responsible for a lot of the tasks associated with the children and house.
This is the fight I see the women in my life, all around me, struggling with day after day.
My own mother raised me with the same views. We all have our roles in life and in the family and her role was to cook, clean, and raise us. My father’s role was to financially support us and keep a roof over our heads. I was raised by this being defined as normal and it is the norm for many Americans.
For my family, these traditional roles worked, everyone had their job in the family. It used to be a family system that worked, so why are mothers everywhere struggling? Is our normal in America the same standards other families hold in other countries?
American families
The traditional family dynamic might be an outdated worldview and perhaps times have changed, the fatherhood figure takes part of the responsibility…
