Lacey Missaghian
This weeks interviews were centered around our parents parental roles as we were growing up and how we plan to organize our own future roles as parents or whatever path we decide to take. My interviewee was one of the few when regarding his situation while growing up. His mother was absent and his father was responsible for taking care of him and his brother. This was very interesting because that isn't a common scenario. Typically if a parent is absent we assume its the father but in his case it was the opposite. Though I was curious to ask why his mother wasn't around I figured that if I wouldn't of asked if it were his father why would I ask if it was is mother. If that makes any sense. He spoke about how it was hard for his father to have a job when he had to take care of the two boys. Later during my portion of the interview I had mentioned how my mother passed away and how I noticed the house being very messy after her passing. Even at such a young age I remember being embarrassed about how messy the house was to the point that I wouldn't invite friends over and eventually began to do some tidying up myself. During that time my interview partner had said how his house was always messy too. It made me think, do women do most of the house cleaning because it's more bothersome to us then men? For example, my father would not have minded the mess, it didn't seem to keep him from having people over but it bothered me even then as an 8 year old girl. Maybe we aren't given our roles according to gender. Maybe a majority of us in each independent gender find certain house hold chores more important than others. I would hate to do anything having to do with a car, hell id probably drive until the tank was empty let alone change the oil!
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