Roles in the family and finance

Today we talked a lot about fathers and finance but also talked about how mothers and fathers work together to help take care of their families. Fathers are usually the ones that provide, preside and protect their families while the mothers are usually home to nurture and take care of children. Through the Church of Jesus Christ we have the family proclamation and it talks about how mothers have a role to nurture and be with their children and fathers provided and protected and stuff.

We were talking about how these days there are a lot of moms and dads who both work and how the roles of both parents would play out. Sometimes the women have the opportunity to make more money than their husband and they want the women to work and have the dad stay home and work less. This takes away the roles of both parents and what they should do. I don't think it's a wrong thing to do, sometimes that's just what's best for the family but if it doesn't really matter it's better to have the father do it.

We also talked about how sometimes parents think it will be better if both parents work because then they will get more income. Usually it doesn't work that way, they usually lose more money than normal. This is because they have to find someone to take care of their kids so they have to pay them to do watch their kids, and then they usually think it's okay to put them in extracurricular activities because now they both have a job so they can let them do anything and now your putting more money into it. Then when the mom works sometimes it requires nicer clothes so then she has to go out and buy more clothes so that she can look for a job and let me just tell you clothes are not cheap especially these days. So technically they are making about the same amount of money from before because they are using money to do more things now and the mom is having to take more time out of her life and working her butt off to see no extra income.



I think it is important as parents that they should talk and discuss the details of everything because in the long run one option might be better than the other and it will help guide their family in the way they should be raised. I know with my family most of my life my mom has stayed at home while my dad would go to work. My mom would drive us places that we needed to go like appointments, going to friends' houses, or taking us to school if we forgot it. It was really nice to have my mom be there when I got home from school to talk about my day and see if there was anything we needed. Just recently in my last year of high school my mom got a job just because nowadays things cost a lot more money and all my siblings are older and don’t need anyone to look after us. It was kind of sad because I missed coming home after school to see my mom. My dad was working and then would be home around dinner time and we would all talk as a family. I honestly just look to see what is best for your family in many ways. Physical, spiritual, emotional, intellectual and financial. Every family is different and as long as it works for you and your family and reaches all the needs of it I think it will be fine.