Gender and Family Life

This topic for this week classes was so broad and I felt like we just skimmed the surface of this topic. We talked from men and women and how they different to same-sex attraction.

Men and women are different and I am glad for that. Females are more detail oriented, are verbal, know landmarks, and more cooperative. Men are competitive, task oriented, protective, and spatial oriented. As far as parenting goes for each gender women are more gentle, comforting, and domestic. Men are more apt to tell their children to toughen up, are rougher, and want their children to have careers, and leadership. With all of these differences it helps compliment each other to make it work. When the woman is worried about something the man is able to calm her worries. Men are able to focus on one task and the women is able to multi task. They bring out the best in each other. Whoever is good at one specific job/task then have them do it. No matter the gender. If it isn't split up equally it is ok, do what you are good at and perfect it. Lean on each other. We were made different for a reason and strive to be the best we can be.

Another topic we covered this week was same-sex attraction. I thought it was interesting that studies have shown that some end up being gay from being molested. Another reason was if the mother is overly involved in the childs life and pulls the child closer, then the child tends to pull away into a same-sex attraction. Also another reason a child might have same-sex attraction is if you keep telling the child that they are gay all the time, after awhile the child starts to believe it. It is very sad how we judge people like that. In some cases we as the public maybe could of prevented the child from being gay by just our words. Sometimes we are too harsh on each other.
I feel that some people can be born having feelings for the same sex. I don't think that parents go out and on purpose tell their children how to love the same sex . Or I don't think they tell them that their same gender is better and they should have a life with them. Even though they are different we should try to accept them as humans. I don't believe in marriage between same-sex, but people should have the freedom to date or marry who ever they want. Also I don't care if the person is gay, but I don't want to see public displays of affection for each other. I won't display it if you won't. I know this is a little contradicting, but this is my honest opinion.