Husband and Wives’ Familial Roles in Retrospect
For ages, the normal arrangement between husband and wife in the family has been the latter being liable for the household and childcare, while the former being for career. Husband and wife act as each other’s partner in bringing forth their family, society’s basic social institution. Both are tasked to raise their child/children in the best possible way. As the world escalated in further complexity, in today’s modern industrial society, such hegemonic scenery is ceasing within the household.
Strikingly these days, is the fact that the wives’ role is not just limited to the chores and the child/children. The normal arrangement between a husband and wife now is a duality of incomes. The emerging trend now is, borrowing from (2003), alpha wives and beta husbands.
’s (1998) study has shown that a “role reversal” exists, with wives assuming dominance in the household. Thus, there has been a profound effect on household decision-making. (1998) warns though, that the traditional gender role (dominant males and subjugated females) could still intervene as to how husband and wives play their familial roles. Apart from this, both get to suffice not only the family’s needs, but similarly their own. Resources are allocated not only for the child/children’s good, but also likewise for their own personal needs.
Husbands and wives today can divorce easily and relinquish the family they once created, and possibly create anew with another partners. Childrearing affects is an issue. Add the fact that childcare today has been a public good and/or a commodity, as evident in the New Labour’s Childcare Strategy, a social policy on childcare in the hands of the private sector.
Husband and wives’ familial roles have changed to the extent that they have to compete with professional career roles and goals. It’s family versus career now.
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