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Shubhangini Shaktawat
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Why does society place greater onus on mothers in raising children?
The society we live in, is already knows for discriminating against women to such an extent, that a number of women end their lives each passing year, feeling overly pressurized by the expectation and limitations imposed on them by the society. Here, the question is, “Why does society place greater onus on mothers in raising children?” So, here we are talking about what women go through right after getting married. According to society, marriage is the license to producing offsprings. No offence, one understands the importance of grandchildren to the senior citizens all around the world. But here, the question is strikingly different.
So, firstly a woman is expected to leave her job and become nothing short of a dependent woman who only takes care of the household and has to ask her spouse before every small little decision that she makes. She does as she is told, and gets married to someone she does not even know properly. She does not even get rid of the tiredness of her wedding and her family starts pressurizing her on conceiving. She still tries to adjust in order to fit in and live up to the expectations of her family and in-laws. She conceives and delivers a beautiful baby, and now it seems like the baby is solely her responsibility. What did she give up her life for? For this?
The society has made an impression of women like the only ones who have to suffer and adjust to make things work everywhere. A child is as much a responsibility of his/her father, as much of his mother. A marriage is a union of two people. A union means being joined together, certainly a 50/50 relationship between two people. Hence, a child should be handled and be taken care of by his parents as a whole, not just his mother. Women are expected to handle the household, take care of the child, serve to the family’s needs and be there for whoever is in need of her anytime, every time. A woman is a human too and we must understand that at least now. The society needs a brainwash, in the way that the society really needs to do better when it comes to thinking big. The world will never be able to flourish if the society remains to keep such a narrow-minded outlook about everything. Opinions can be respected only if they’re respectable.
A woman myself,
Shubhangini Shaktawat