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Cassandra Dowell (Happy)
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Date Posted: 23:44:41 07/08/10 Thu
In reply to:
Dr. magun-Jackson
's message, "Assignment 5" on 11:39:05 07/05/10 Mon
>Assignment 5 (Sex roles): July 9
>Social learning theory suggests that parental modeling
>of gender roles may play a critical part in gender
>role identity development. Reflect on what kinds of
>messages or models your own parents demonstrated about
>gender. Post your thoughts and a list of common
>household tasks delineated by gender.
Since age 2, my parents have been divorced and remarried so I lived in two different types of households. Living with my mother and step dad, was alot different than with my dad and step mother. In my mothers house, my older sister and I did all the chores. My mother had her own floral business and was always away from home, so we had to do everything. My sister and I cooked, cleaned, babysitted, the whole nine everyday. My younger brother didnt begin taking on chores in the house until he was around 15 and I was out of the house by then. My step dad felt that women were supposed to keep the house clean, so since me and my sister were the oldest we had to do it. The both of my parents ( mom and step dad), both worked two jobs and were gone all day long so I learned to be independent and work hard because thats what they did. Im very independent and does everything for myself because my parents used to argue that despite the fact that my step dad and mom worked two jobs, my step dad paid all the bills.
In my dad and step mothers house on the other hand it was different. Everybody had their own chores, ( whatever you messed up , you cleaned up). Nobody cleaned after the other and you did everything on your own. My dad is a pastor so he was either at work all day or at church. My step mom worked all day also so both of them were gone all day from home. If my dad got home first he would cook dinner. My step mother didnt have the role as the ( house wife) she rarely cooked and never cleaned.
Restrictions were different in the house too. In my mother's house, we couldnt go any where unless we took my sister and brother and most of the time we couldnt go because my mother was never at home. However over my dad's house, we didnt have any restrictions. My dad had the type of attitude where he taught us right from wrong so it was up to us to follow it. If we did something wrong, we learned from our mistakes and kept moving. Even as a pastor my dad was very cool and wasnt strict on us at all. So over all everything balanced out and worked out for the good.
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