Roles in Parenting

I think parenting roles have changed a significant amount over the years. I immediately thought of the differences in parenting between the social classes back in history. Many rich families had enough money to have a maid to take care of the children and do much of the housework. This is exemplified when queens had children in Europe and in the movie/book The Help. One of the mothers neglected her child, Aibileen, and the maid saw her as an unsuitable parent. Skeeter got very close with the maid that helped her family and she said that the maid basically raised her. Since the roles of women have changed over the years, their roles in parenting have changed also.