Who's the boss?
By Curlann
@annierose (21977)
United States
November 7, 2008 1:44am CST
Time is changing very fast. Before, women are preferred to just stay at home and take care of the household chores and her children. She just listens to whatever her dear husband will asked her to do.But now, there are some changes that happens. Many rights and privileges has been given to woman to recognize her importance in the family and in the society. They are no longer inferior to men.
Today we can see many family in which both the mother and the father go for work. And sometimes, it is the mother that is working and the father stays inside the home to do the household chores and takes care of their children. Because of this situation, sometimes it is the mother who dominates in the family. She can dominates it since she is the one working for a living. Can we say that most of the family now has their mother as the boss in the house? Has the role of the father somehow declines because of the superiority of the mother?
How about in your family? Who do you always followed to? Who is it that you are more afraid? Your father or your mother?
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3 responses
@deedeehall (1143)
• United States
10 Nov 08
it is so funny though because when i am not around the whole house falls a part and i am the women.if i walk out the door for two hours to grocery shop and return my boys and there dad are telling on one another fighting back and fort the house is torn apart every body is hungry.you tell me how things go with out the women around.but i do think some times the kids are the boss.
@Shar1979 (2722)
• United States
8 Nov 08
In our home...my husband and I share everything. Sometimes he lets me make the decisions but we always end up both deciding on something. He does help me with the chores too.
Back home my mom or dad makes the decisions too. depends on the situation. I'm not really scared of my parents when I grew up. When I was a kid I was afraid of my dad though.
@salonga (27775)
• Philippines
7 Nov 08
God designed the man to be the leader in the family. The wife is the helpmeet. It is very clear from the book of Genesis that it was the man who was first created and the woman was created to give the man a helpmeet so God was created from the rib of the man and was called a woman because she came from the man.
It was also designed that the man should be the breadwinner of the family. However in today's world I find nothing wrong should the wife find a job to help the man with the finances because life is really difficult. It is however a pity to see some men just staying at home and the working is relegated to the woman. I find it making him less of a man. There is no reason why he can't work. I believe if there is a will there is a way. It does not matter whether his salary is less than what her wife is getting, what is important is he is sweating to find money so he could live up to the image that God wants him to become. This could avoid the dominating tendency of the woman. On the side of the woman, it is however wrong for her to act like she's the leader although is is the breadwinner or she earns more than the man. I think this is not a license. A woman should still respect the respective roles designed by God for each of them. Even the Bible in Ephesians 5:22-24 clearly states: "Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing."
So as the Bible said so, I find no problem in submitting to my husband.
