Some
people say that more engaged fathers are as good as engaged mothers when
it comes to real parenting.
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To
what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion.
There is great substance in the
opinion that an engaged father is in no way short of those qualities that are
associated with an engaged mother in terms of parenting per se. I agree with
the opinion to a greater extent, though mothers at times are at a little
greater advantage than fathers.
Parenting as such is not cut more
for mothers than for fathers, rather it is a job perfectly cut for both if they
are engaged ones. Here we need to see who or what this engaged father or mother
is. Such parent is one to shed his or gender tags and take up the job of
caring, loving, sharing, showing, protecting and preserving to mention a few. Here
the thrust is more the job than on the genre called father or mother.
Culturally, we are brought up
under the impression that mothers are a special breed and fathers are another. As
a matter of fact, both belong to the same breed when they come to have a couple
of children to be made into real human beings. Let me prove it with an example.
Today, a working mother is able to give parenting ways to a not-working father
and a full-timer mother can give it to a part-timer father. And, at the end of
the day what happens is called engaged parenting. Here an engaged father is as
good as an engaged mother.
However, at times, mothers stand a
better chance to be in the upside of parenting. This is mainly with regard to infants
and maturing female children. So the bottom line is that both fathers and
mothers, if engaged well, are equally smart in parenting. Mother may do a
little more parenting, not different parenting as such.
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