February 6th 2021

  I really enjoyed this week’s classes. Gender is such an essential part of a family. There are strengths and weaknesses in both genders but overall, they complement each other and of able to work together to be a good family. For example, women are able to become pregnant and give birth to children and in doing so create a family, but of course they wouldn’t be able to do that in the first place without having a husband. Women are naturally more nurturing which is good for when you have children, and they need somebody to nurture them in saying this men can also be very nurturing but it is more common for women to have this quality.

Something that can throw off the balance of a family is when they are a family with a homosexual couple as the parents it is hard to give the child the different qualities that both men and women have. For example, if a lesbian couple has a child it would be hard for that child to have that father figure. They would probably tend to look towards people outside of there family to fill that role because there are some things that a father can do that a mother can’t but that also is the same the other way around. If a gay couple has a daughter, they aren’t going to be able to give some of those motherly qualities that a mother could give. They wouldn’t be able to teach by experience about things that happens to a woman’s body. The thing is they don’t need to know those things, but it creates an easier family dynamic if there is a straight up father figure and a mother figure. There are so many questions that kids would need to ask but they can’t ask a parent who doesn’t understand physically what they are going through. A mom wouldn’t know what is happening with her son as well as she would know with her daughter and vise versa. It robs the child of the necessary knowledge to grow up and learn about themselves and about their growing bodies.

In conclusion it is best to have a mother and a father because the different roles in the family are able to create a balance between the family. They are able to describe things that the opposite gender couldn’t. Most of the time it creates an easier life for the kid.