So I’ve been reading some of the people’s blogs about companionate marriage.\u00c2\u00a0 What struck me as a major problem to this theory is the idea that both parents have mutual interest in their children.\u00c2\u00a0 The only way this is possible is through adoption.\u00c2\u00a0 When a woman goes through the excrutiating pain of child birth, she is most definitely experiencing much more than the father (although he has spent the last nine months being at her beck and call, you decide what’s worse).\u00c2\u00a0 What I’m trying to say is that women generally care more for their children because that child was literally a part of themselves at one point.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m not saying men don’t care about their offspring, but as far as interests go in their child, I just can’t see there every being equality between the parents.<\/p>\n
I must say however I loved the passage we read in class and I am surprised that it has not made it into any of the film adaptations.\u00c2\u00a0 But let’s face it:\u00c2\u00a0 everyone loves Jo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So I’ve been reading some of the people’s blogs about companionate marriage.\u00c2\u00a0 What struck me as a major problem to this theory is the idea that both parents have mutual interest in their children.\u00c2\u00a0 The only way this is possible … Continue reading