Title
Document Type
Comparison and Contrast Essay
Publication Date
1993
Excerpt
Society dictates roles to people from the moment they are born. Girl babies are wrapped in pink blankets and boy babies are wrapped in blue blankets. Parents are programmed by society to teach their children these roles. They are told to hang baseball bats in their boy's room and surround their girls with flowers and dolls. My mother died when I was six years old. Since that time, it has always been just my father and me. With no woman at home, I saw only the male perspective on housework, child rearing, and employment. Because my father had to fill both the role of dad and mom, I realized it is possible and even good for men and women to break society's set roles.
Recommended Citation
LaFontaine, Amy, "Daddy's Girl (1993)" (1993). The Valpo Core Reader. 311.
http://scholar.valpo.edu/core_reader/311