Growing up I saw the roles of each gender different, but equally important and challenging. My parents had the task of raising and supporting seven children. At times it was very difficult, it still is today. Their duties very distinctly different, but at the same time connected. My dad took the role of provider and disciplinary, my mother was the nurturer and the person that held the family together. My parents joined together to instill the morals and convictions that each of us carry with us today.
My father always seemed to be working. Sanders illustrates how I saw my father when he said " They got up before light, worked all day long whatever the weather, and when they came home at night they looked as though somebody had been whipping them" (12). My father worked three jobs when I was young, he really had no choice if h
e wanted to provide for us the things we needed: food, clothes, and good education. Because he worked so much my father was hardly ever home during the day. We would only see him for an hour during dinner then he would run off to the next job and not get home until late at night. He never complained about his duties as our father. He showed my that life was full of responsibilities and in order to make it you must fulfill your responsibility. He instilled in me a good work ethic, but most important he showed how to be a good father. However, my personality and compassion came from somewhere else.
In conclusion, it is clear to see the difference in roles between the genders, but in my life the role of one gender could not function successfully without the other. Both genders together shaped and molded me and my brothers and sisters to the people we ar
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