"Your Dad let you be born, but your
Mom never teaches you!", "How on earth does your mother teach you?",
"How can you be a mother? All your children are so bad!" These are very
common Cantonese expressions and do they sound familiar to you? Have you
said them lately? Have you been scolded with these lately?
Traditionally, women are to take
care of the children at home while men go out and earn their living.
Therefore, everybody places the responsibility of rearing children onto
the mother. When children make mistakes or misbehave, everyone,
including the father, thinks it is the responsibility of the mother who
fails to teach them well.
In this day and age, families in
Hong Kong are mostly nuclear families; both parents need to work to
support the family. The concept that "men as the breadwinners and women
as the housekeeper" has become outdated. Instead women have to bear a
double burden role of earning the living and taking care of the family.
This means, the responsibility of rearing children is still not shared
by men even though many women go to work. At the end of the day, women
are bearing with even greater stress than before.
"Family" is owned by all family
members, so all household tasks and responsibilities should be shared
amongst members of the family. When we were young, we knew that both
parents are equally important in affecting our growth and development.
Thus as we become parents, we should realized that mothers and fathers
are equally responsible for the caring and teaching of their children,
and not only the mother.
The TV drama series "The Silver Chamber of
Sorrows" talks about the traditional roles of men and women in the days
of feudal society. The drama was very popular and had a high viewer
rating when it was shown months ago, many audiences can still relate to
this traditional sex role even now. What a pity!
Many women do not buy into gender equality
because they are afraid that no one will open the door for them or that
no man will treat them to a meal; similarly, many men also d...
依潔 2010-09-07 10:38
人必須心懷希望，才會活的快樂，日子才過得充實,有意義,有朝氣,有信心。
ddddd 2010-09-01 16:53
來囉~先問聲安
劉聖苓 2010-08-30 02:24
男女互悅，未必廝守終生，相愛就是美的。
坤郁 2010-08-23 12:52
Gather roses while you may.
陳美男 2010-08-14 10:57
真有內容的部落格~
v黃怡安 2010-08-07 11:05
你的部落格感覺很棒，nice job！
淑貞 2010-08-02 08:38
成功等於目前，其他都是這句話的註解。
tpvaeul 2010-06-04 17:00
明宏 2010-06-01 21:32
卡爾.桑得柏：「除非先有夢，否則一切皆不成。」共勉！ ..........................................................
小龍女 2010-05-31 22:23
佩君 2010-05-18 08:58
安...辛苦了！祝福你在各個方面都愈來愈好！
怡君 2010-05-04 17:35
Where theres a will theres a way.
....................................................................................................chrablcgh 2010-04-30 15:44
esterb_sw 2010-04-26 20:32
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .怡雯 2010-04-20 09:57
不要讓挫敗把你擺平,再給自己一個機會,從新再出發
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