Are Mothers Better Parents?

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Are Mothers the Better Parents? The word mother is synonymous to someone who feeds, cares, nurtures and protects. A mother will go to all ends to keep her young from harm's way.This is true for all animals where the maternal instinct is believed to be hard-wired to the brain. Mothers, with a higher level of the hormone, oxytocin, during pregnancy, exhibit a stronger bonding between mother and child. Children reach out more to their mothers than to their fathers. It may be because the mother spends more time with the child. Women naturally show emotion while men keep their feelings to themselves. Does this mean the mother have better parenting skills? In many societies, mothers are destined to be the caregivers and fathers, the breadwinners and disciplinarians. However, in this day and age, the norm has changed due to social, cultural, and economic climate. Many households have both parents working; some have single moms or single dads; widowed husbands with children or widowed mothers with children; others are adoptive parents; single dads with daughters. More children choose their mother to speak about events that happened to them in their life. This was result of a recent research that was done in kindergartens of Tehran city. Psychologists say it refers to women’s mental specifications that they are better listener than men. In other words, women notice to details more than men and because of that they remember all the details that their children spoke about easily. Most children like their parents to notice to their life. For example, it is interesting for a child to see that his parents know name of all friends of him. So from this view, mothers are more effective to their children than fathers. The group surveyed 2,020 Americans, and found that people think today's fathers are doing a better job than today's mothers. In fact, more than half (56%) of those
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