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Brigiette Lytle CFT 360-1002 Professor Perkins February 17, 2024 Issue Post 2, Chapter 3 How have gender roles influenced your behaviors and attitudes about families? Gender roles have played a crucial role in my behaviors and attitudes towards families for many reasons. Society has set standards for how we are expected to act, dress, and conduct ourselves based off what our assigned sex was at birth. Women are expected to be feminine, nurturing, and polite, while men are expected to be masculine, strong, and lead. Many of these expectations have had negative impacts emotionally for both men and women, who will often suppress their emotions or feelings in their relationships with one-another. In my own personal experience, I used to be told often that my son looked too much like a girl because his hair was very long and curly down his back. He even came home from school a few times stating that some girls kept calling him a girl because of his hair length. After hearing it so often, he eventually expressed that he wanted a haircut. As a mother, it was hard for me to witness how much society’s standards had an affect on my own child who is only in kindergarten. These same issues have often resulted in boys becoming men who are stuck in societies tradition masculine standards, emotionally detached, and refuse to seek help. Another example of how gender roles have influenced my own family is how my husband works and I have been a stay-at-home mom for the last 6 years as I finish earning my degree. Although my husband is the one who works all day, he still helps with taking care of the home and our children though, which isn’t always the case with families who follow the traditional dynamics.

Issue Post 3, Chapter 4 What type of sex education did you have growing up? Was it beneficial? Why or why not? Growing up my mother was very open and honest about what sex is, the importance of safe-sex, and that my sisters and I shouldn’t feel shame for having a sex life despite however many partners we experienced in our lives. She also made sure to note that sex did not have to always require love, let alone even require a relationship at all. I also faintly remember having a one-day sex education course in the 5 th grade that really only scratched the surface of the topic at the time, such as pregnancy and menstrual cycles but was still very vanilla compared to what I was learning at home. I don’t even believe the teachers who taught the course opened the room for further discussions or questions for the students. I faced a few instances in my teen years being accused by bullies of doing things sexually that I had in fact never done yet. My mother’s teachings helped me turn a blind eye to the false accusations and thankfully they did not affect my mental health. I feel as though always having the open-minded and transparent type of parent was beneficial to the woman I have become throughout the years. Because of my mother creating that foundation of trust and open-mindedness with her daughters, I was always comfortable enough to tell her when I was curious or concerned about sex without the fear of being judged or ridiculed for having the very natural thoughts and desires that every teen experiences. Issue Post 4, Chapter 5 A study (discussed in your textbook and found in the PowerPoint lecture) looked at the differences in satisfaction between arranged marriages in India and free-chosen marriages in the USA. What were your reactions to the results?

The results for the differences in satisfaction between arranged marriages in India and free-chosen marriages in the U.S. was actually not that shocking to me. Due to arranged marriages being a cultural norm in India, it is very common for the married couple to be at peace with the decision in marriage. Also, these couples are typically already married for years prior to the study discussed, and despite their marriages being arranged potentially against their wishes in the beginning, they could have found peace and happiness since then. Despite the marriage being arranged or free-will, people typically all share the same important factors when it comes to marriage and satisfaction in relationships such as communication, commitment, love, respect, and loyalty. Even for arranged marriages, the focus is always on accepting, loving, and adjusting to your partner for who they are, it just takes time throughout the years that go by in the relationship. I would imagine that there is a small possibility of the results in the study being slightly different had they conducted it in the beginning of these marriages as opposed to conducting it on couples who have been in a union together for many years already. People who are married by arrangement are known to love their partners just as deeply as those who marry by free-will because it’s what they are expected to do in their society and culture.

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