Parenting Case

Parenting is a challenging but a highly crucial task. Good parents produce happy and healthy children while bad parenting will produce problematic children. Many people believe that women make better parents than men and that is why they have a greater role in raising children in most societies. Others claim that men are just as good as women at parenting.

According to Kurianjoseph (2013), women have proven to be a better parent than men because women tend to be more understanding and patience than men. Besides that, women also possess good qualities in communication and intelligence. As an example, studies from UK have shown that there is a greater dominance by female candidates who tend to outperform the male candidates in aptitude and communication test. As a result, women have proven to be an excellent communicator and smarter than men when it comes to taking care of children. Therefore, through proper communication and understanding, mothers play a greater role influencing their children.

Since young, women have obtained more familial conditions than men. Females tend to enjoy learning about nurturing. They tend to play with dolls, feed them and even pretend that they are their mothers and sing them a lullaby. Girls show sympathy with the essential role of their mothers and often consider those activities including housework as feminine duties. Compared to the males, they are much different. Boys prefer playing football or toy guns and sometimes behave like a particular vigorous hero in movies (Kitosdad, 2010).

Koreagunba (2010) stated that it is in the women's nature that counts as an advantage in being better parents. Women are gentler and more tolerant than men, thanks to the close and sacred relationship with their children from the very first day of pregnancy. Hence, children may have the tendency to listen and confide their personal problems to their mothers. Contrarily, there is always an unbridgeable gap between the father and children because fathers are strict and serious men, which also makes children reluctant to open their hearts. Therefore, women are considered not only better mothers but also close friends or even outstanding psychologist by their kids.

Moreover, the belief that the women's sole responsibility is to raise their children has been deeply rooted in society for many years. Men are sole financial providers and have to work very hard to support the family, thus projects deprive them of invaluable time to spend with children. Their significant contribution to the family is undeniable, but in educating and taking care of kids, their wives seem to outweigh them. Not only do women have to work from morning till midnight to meet deadlines, but they also spend time caring for their children physically and emotionally.

However, according to Sykes (2008), men are just as great in taking care of children like women. When men do have time to spend with their children, men are