Stay-at-home dad Essays

  • The Role Of Stay At Home Dads?

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    Staying at home and taking care of the children, whose role between husband and wife is it? It has always been the women who stayed home and took care of the children. Who is to say that the father staying at home and the mother entering the workforce is not okay. With this day and age the amount of fathers staying home taking care of children is increase. Of course with a change a parenting roles it can have an affect on the family dynamics. Culture and society to help create these stigmas and roles

  • Some Stereotypical Jobs for Woman

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    A woman’s only job is to stay at home, take care of her family, and pleasure her man. What is a man’s job? “Men, they do everything,” quoted a fellow male classmate, “Men get the real money.” But it is the twenty-first century! Women are no longer expected to stay at home; they have taken roles as teachers, doctors, C.E.O.s, part of the military, and the list goes on. As for men, it is now acceptable for them to stay at home, take care of their families or even become nannies and nurses. Will Meek

  • Stay-At-Home Fathers

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    Traditionally, the stay-at-home parent has been the mother, but many modern fathers have become a nurturing parent to their children as well. It is now more common than it has been in the past for the father to be the stay-at-home parent. These fathers learn the skills needed to care for children, and some children who grow up with a stay-at-home dad learn to be less stressed, have better social skills, and are less fearful. In some cases, children raised with stay-at-home dads learn how to handle

  • Emerging House Husbands

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    fulltime working wife. (Heiman 122) It can also be a man who does hold a career but chooses to have a “second shift” by coming home and assuming household responsibilities. At the end of 1987 15% of married men chose to become house husbands (O’Sullivan). According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there were 189,000 full-time, stay-at-home dads in 2002, up 18 percent from 1994. But dads' groups say that estimate is the result of too-restrictive criteria, and they put the number at closer to 2 million. Now

  • Sacrifices for Children

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    have a stay at home parent It used to be, that the wife was the designated house maker, and the husband would go work to work the day shift and make all the money. The wife would then take care of the kids and raise them and look after them while the father was away. Since then many things have changed. Women can get jobs easier now and make just as much or more money than men, so the problem arises what to do with the children while the parents are out. There are some fathers who stay at home and

  • A Temporary Matter by Jhumpa Lahiri

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    relationship, and feminist relationships. A Temporary Matter by Jhumpa Lahiri is a short story explaining how these short relationships can fall apart so quick. The couple, Shukumar and Shoba have a very complicated relationship. Shukumar works at home on his dissertation while Shoba works gets up every morning and goes to work. Previously the couple lost a child right after it was born, which hurt the couple. After this event this couple hardly talked, became experts on avoiding each other, and

  • Father Knows Best: The Ideal American Family

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    vastly over the years. Today we often see fathers who stay home and plunge themselves into their children’s lives instead of being the stereotypical breadwinner of the family. In our society the typical male breadwinner has been a main staple in films, television and books, however, the new idea of a stay at home dad is becoming a more prominent trend. With this being said: what is the best role in today’s society, the breadwinners or the stay at home fathers? In many American families today we see the

  • Paid Paternity Leave

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    rarer is paid paternity leave. A very few enlightened companies offer new dads time off from a few days to a few weeks, however, it still falls short of the 6 to 12 weeks women get for maternity leave. Finally, in 2004 California became the first state to offer what they call PFL or “Paid Family Leave”, allowing 6 weeks off with 55% of usual pay replaced up to $1,075 per week, this is a definite start. In most states, dads are forced to take their vacation time, sick days or unpaid leave from their

  • Essay About Moving Away

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    always do my homework right when I get home. ISo anyways my dad called me and my sister out into the living room. He and my mom were sitting on the couch. They said come over here and sit down. So we went over and sat down by them. My dad got a text from my uncle saying I lost my job. I was wondering if you or mom or dad could have us live with. Just in tell we have enough money to buy our own house. So my dad asked us if it was ok with us. We said it was ok. So my dad told my uncle. So he said so we could

  • Reflection Of My Family

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    Dad was working in a factory called (Bata) and my mother was a stay at home mother ( housewife), she was suppose to take care of the children, as well as all matters concerning the house. An example of our daily routine will be, dad will wake up leave money on the table them will go to work, mom will wakes up clean the house then wakes us up and gets us ready for school

  • My Life: The Best Year Of Your Life

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    boyfriend of a year, good grades, and a great social life. Life couldn’t have been any better for me. Except my home life. I was living with my parents who had just had their 25th wedding anniversary, and my older brother. You would think my parent’s relationship would be great since they have been married 25 years. Sadly, it was completely opposite then what it should be. On November 4, 2001 my dad was involved in a very serious wreck. He was rear-ended by a semi which caused his truck to roll 500 feet

  • My Greatest Gift Ever

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    had three children; i have one brother and one sister. Mom was a stay home mom and dad worked like the stereotyped Father.i can still remember how it used to be. We all used to be so happy when our dad came home to see us. Later, about when i was six years old or so it changed. Dad became stressed and started drinking and smoking more; mom gradually got sicker. My dad became a security guard. Eventually we were so poor that my dad could not even feed

  • Movie Review: Daddy Day Care

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    Productions. This movie follows an African American family. The family has two parents, Charlie and Kim Hinton, with their four-year-old son, Ben Hinton. The family seems to be in the middle class with Charlie being the sole provider and Kim benign a stay at home mom. The movie starts with Kim wanting to go back to work, which leads to putting Ben in an exclusive and expensive preschool. Then an unexpected event happens, Charlie loses his job when the company downsized. They try to keep their lifestyle

  • Overcoming Masculinity

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    When in reality now a days both men and women share responsibilities and is socially acceptable for someone to be a stay at home dad. That being in effect doesn't mean you are less of a man or means you lose respect, but the opposite because they must of had a difficult time making this type of choice knowing the consequences and questioning that was going to come with. In

  • Traditional Gender Roles

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    The man is the breadwinner in the family, whereas the woman stays home and cares for the house or children. There are many instances where this is prevalent, especially in the TV show “The Brady Bunch.” There really is no better example of a quintessential American family who demonstrates traditional gender roles than portrayed by the Brady family. Mike Brady is in every sense a classic American dad. He wakes up, drinks his morning coffee while reading a newspaper, as his wife

  • The Importance Of My Father

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    relatives. The person in my family who is always on my mind and in my heart is my father. We had shared a special bond, and for me, that bond still holds today. That bond is stronger than anything else in my life, and it always will be even though my dad passed away just over a year ago. The reason my father had such a strong impact on my life was because of his many great traits. My father was kind, and he showed it with my immediate family, his

  • Write About A Funeral

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    Write about a funeral you have attended. I and my dad were going on vacation with my sister and her oddball boyfriend like we did every year. And we went camping at Coralville Lake. Brought our boat as well as 9 days worth of belongings and food. We left my widowed grandma with my aunt and her grandson. And basically hit the road as soon as my sister arrived. Once we got there we set up camp checked in and went to get something to eat. I didn’t know if it was the night air or what but all night I

  • Personal Narrative Essay: Nightmare On Elm Street

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    When I was a kid every weekend was the same, and I thought it would just stay that way. My best friend Tashawna lived across the street with her two brothers and after school on Friday we would go to her house and have a snack and play until her parents sent us outside. Then it was dinner and baths and deciding who’s house we were going to stay at. This Friday we were staying at me house which was my favorite because I got a bed and didn’t have to sleep on the floor since I was the youngest. We watched

  • My Hero's Journey

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    It all started when we were in our Kansas home, mom said by the time we got to Ohio I had to make up my mind. She was talking about if I wanted to drive back to Kansas later that week because my sister had to go to cheer camp or if I wanted to stay in Ohio with my dad. Now see my dad works in the oil and natural gas pipeline industry so he’s always in a new state. He had been working in Ohio for a few months be for we decided to go up there. I dismissed the decision my mom had given me and continued

  • Personal Narrative Essay On Ice And Ice

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    came home from work. As he pulled in the driveway my brothers loaded up the skates, and we were off for the enjoyment of the afternoon skating. My father decided to go skating at a hockey arena close to my grandparent's old house, God knew what he was doing when my dad chose to go to that spot because, little did we know my dad was going to get terribly hurt. When we arrived, our excitement levels were though the rough. The skates were on and we were off. As we were skating dad was trying