Essay on masculinity, fatherhood and feminsm
For years, the child care was a responsibility linked to the mother and the labor of the father was bring money and food to the house, unlinked to the parenting. The mother was the responsible of brings up the child and of the maintenance of the home, she was the principal authority in the house, until the father come back home. When this was happening, all the house had to start to work around the presence of the father. This is a case of a typical family. For other side, was the uniparental family, that for a long time was seen like something bad and prohibited. In this families, generally, the father was the person who leaves, leaving the custody of the child to the mother. Today, there are some points that has not changed so much. Although now the presence of mother and father are more equality, there still the stereotype of the mother taking care of the children and the father bringing money home. Today, besides breeding the kids, the mother go out to work and the father t...
