Blog # 32

Women lawyers and men lawyers are very different when is comes to parenting. When it comes to parenting it depends on what the mother and father planned to do with their children and what roles they decided to take. Women are supposed to be the caretaker of the family according to the gender expectations and the men are supposed to work the odd hours to support his family. With the mom being a lawyer she needs to be ready for some insults because she will be called an unfit mother if she is not home with her kids when they need her. It may be very hard for the mother to always be with her children and she may need to have someone else watch her kids or even take them places but she will also be called an unfit mother because she is choosing work over her kids. Men have a very different role in the family they are expected to not be home with their kids during the day. They would be called an unfit dad if they were the ones staying home all day to watch the kids and take them to and from school. It is important that the family does spend time together but if a women does want to be a lawyer the family already knows that their mother will be a very busy person because of the amount of work that she has. Males are expected to work extra hours and to be busy throughout the day, to busy that they can't be with their kids. Women on the other hand are expected to work very minimal hours if they even work at all, but if they don't work then how are they being successful? Success and knowledge is very important in today's society because there is new technology and now days people continue to go to school to get a profession that they could have that will bring them a lot of money. Although with men, they also want to be an involved parent and as a lawyer that would restrict their times that they get to spend with their child so it also becomes hard for the men that want that time off to spend with their kids. There are also those men that are single parents that should be able to have flexiable hours because they are the only ones that are able to tend to their childrens needs. There is a high importance with child care and they need to be changed so that the children of these lawyers are not the ones being hurt.