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* Tuesday, April 17, 2007 *

TOPIC: Family & Marriage

Question 20: Are fathers important?

Definations:
-Important: marked by or indicative of significant worth or consequence; valuable in content or relationship.
(Defination taken from Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary)

Roles of fathers:
-Usually the person who makes important decisions in traditional families.
-Usually the person who ensure descipline in the children in traditional families.
-Usually the person who supports the family economically in traditional families.
-Usually the person that is able to help the chidren academically in traditional families.
-May also give emmotional support to the children in modern families.
-May also help children to solve personal issues in modern families.

Points that show redundancy of fathers:
-Mothers can take over many of the roles of fathers in traditional families now.
-Some fathers still has the traditional perceptions on the roles of fathers.

My view:
In today's modern society, some people question the need for fathers. This is due to the fact that more women are getting euducated today and also the increse in their social status. This cause women to take on the traditional roles of fathers which they were unable to in older days. However, I do not believe that these reasons eradicate the position of father.

My points above show that there are a lot of important roles for the father that would affect the children greatly. These includes areas such as economic, academic, descipline, decision making, emmotional and helping children solve personal problems. These are all important roles that would determine the outcome of the children.

The problem is, with modernisation, women can can take up the roles of fathers traditionally. So if mothers can do the job, why the need for father? My points above answer this question by showing with the change in roles of mother, so does the roles of father change. If mothers can take on the roles of father, why cannot it be otherwise? Thus, fathers nowadays also cater to children emmotionally. This is also possible because families have lesser children nowadays in average so more attention can be spent on one children.

I strongly believe that children brought up without fathers or only one parent tend to be affected adversly. Reason being that they would get lesser attention from parents and they would feel different from other children. So if there are fathers and mothers, why not share the burden?

Done by: Zhuo Ran

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