Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?

Both parents should have an equal responsibility in child

rearing.

Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Sample response:

I strongly agree that both parents should have an equal

responsibility in child rearing. I believe that when a mother
and father both participate as equally as possible in their
children's growth and learning, the child learns that both
men and women can be nurturing and playful and also act
as a disciplinarian.

I think that when fathers are gentle, loving and playful with
their children they teach those children that being a man,
and being a father means much more than the traditional
role of providing the family with the monetary means to
survive. For example, a boy who each night reads stories
with his father and debriefs the day will not only have a
close relationship with his father, but will also see that
being a man means being kind, gentle and loving. In a
family where the mother is the sole, or even the primary
nurturer, the children will rarely see that men have the
capacity to be gentle and kind.

Likewise, I believe that mothers and fathers should both

take equal roles in the disciplining of their children. When
both mothers and fathers discipline their children, using
the same techniques, children learn that strength and
assertiveness are also a part of what it means to be either
a mother or a father. That is, the father is not the sole
disciplinarian in the family, as was the father of a few
generations back.

When fathers and mothers participate equally in their

children's upbringing, I believe that they raise children with
a balanced view of what it means to be a mother or a
father.