this will be for a grade afterall :)

I just thought this was a cool picture. Found it on one of my friends Facebook pages. Isn't crazy how little kids view marriage!

The social construction of gender and marriage in little kids is still evident. Boys believe the same as a man would about marriage. They too think that they should never marry or if they do their views on how a wife should be are gender biassed. The little boys said that their wife should "keep the chips and dip coming," but why couldn't the women be watching the game while the guy keeps everything coming! I like watching sports just as much as a guy does. I get into it and yell at the TV too, it shouldn't be view that sports are a male pass time. The other little boy said its never a good time to get married, but the little girl just thought of an age that would be good. Even as little kids girls love the idea of marriage and being a man's wife and the little boys just do it because the women want to. The gender roles that men and women play in marriage is thought of in the same way as adults and kids. Both young boys and grown men think that the women keeps house and that the man provides for the family. This view has been this way always, until recently most families have both parents providing because of the economy, but every boy who grew up with a soccer mom believes thats how their wife should be when they grow up. We really need to change how our children see this world and the way gender roles play into it. Even if you are a soccer mom, you should teach your kid that women don't have to be just the mom and housewife, that they can be the breadwinner and the sports fanatic!