Functionalist Murdock suggested as children we are socialised into societies shared norms and values and he believed that males provide the economic roles and females provided the expressive role. Therefore it is natural for women to play the expressive role in the household looking after the family’s emotional needs. However, radical feminist Ann Oakley argues that the role of the housewife is a social construction and isn’t linked to the female role. The housewife role makes sure that women stay inferior to men making it difficult for them have careers. Women carry out the triple burden in the household; the domestic labour, emotional labour, and paid labour.
As there were no toys and games for children to play with, which is a major part of upbringing, they were forced to take on adult responsibilities as young as seven to keep themselves occupied. Children at this age were expected to assist in productive activities in the household and may well be apprenticed out to learn to trade. This type of work led to “little distinction between adults and children”, for the reason that children were now seen as economic assets, just like men who provided money for the family in the pre-industrial society. In addition kids were criminally responsible, indicating that they could be punished for crimes such as stealing on a similar basis to that of adults. For example, a 7 year old could be hung for stealing.
‘I’m your mother. In which her daughter replied ‘if you want to be treated like a mother, you should act like one. “ it is evident that the way things are conducted in the family is known to be wrong by the children as she points out to her mother that her actions and behaviour do not depict that of a mother, this shows both maturity and understanding, and again the will to rise above her current situation. "But on that first day of school, Mom refused to get out of bed. Lori, Brian, and I pulled back the covers and tried to drag her out, but she wouldn't budge."
The Puritan community in The Crucible was vulnerable in many ways and susceptible to irrational and panicky accusations of the Salem Witch Hunts because of their strict and constricting ways. The children in the community are treated very poorly and less than everyone else in the town. As the Salem Witch Hunts were essentially started by the children the fact that they were treated as lesser beings contributed to the communities demise. “He (Reverend Parris) regarded them as young adults, an until this strange crisis he, like the rest of Salem, never conceived that the children were anything but thankful for being permitted to walk straight, eyes slightly lowered, arms at their sides, and mouths shut until bidden to speak,” (Miller 3). Miller foreshadows the Witch Hunts to come.
In Annawadi the only free school is the municipal school near the airport. This school stops at the eighth grade, and the teachers are often absent and lack the ability to give a proper education. Due to this issue most parents do not waste time sending their children to the municipal schools. Since there are a lot of parents who do not send their children there it is also why no one seems to make an effort to change it. If the slum residents want to attend the ninth grade and beyond, then they would have to pay for a private school.
While she is on the Victory Tour, she allows no one to cater her needs because that’s not how she lived back at home. She likes doing everything on her own because she says. “If I do it by myself, I shall have no reason to be mad at anyone but me”. I’ve also been independent because I never had stable parents or guardians to rely on. From a young age, I moved out of my house, I had to get a job, and pay for my own necessities.
The very first high school that I attended was Christ The King which was a catholic school, and because I was the new kid I really didn’t know anyone. So I tried to get to know some people, but because I'm shy that didn't work out for me so I just stayed talking to the one person that I knew. The environment in that school was so different as far as school work and the school district went; their rules were really strict the girls couldn't wear more than two colors on their nails, or in their hair and if so we would get a detention. We also would get a detention if we were caught with our phones or if we were chewing gum; I received plenty of detentions for my nails,chewing gum, and my phone. They had us work once a week on certain days in different places; I’ve worked in a health clinic and MB financial bank.
Yet without school rules being constantly pushed onto the children, there is no clear concept of punishment of any kind for an action. At such young ages, children do not have a full understanding of what is acceptable in society but still know that there is punishment in the world around them. With no one to direct the children about what decisions are acceptable in society, choices are made by free will. This degree of freedom is tremendous, and can be even more burdening than a society with a strict structure. While the common conception is that free will is glorious and without error or care, the opposite is true.
In short, I am asking that you not come, for your own good. There is no freedom here, everything is a lie. People walk the streets thin and hungry and houses are tiny and filthy, people live with their animals. Work is assigned to everyone, it is tiresome and you recieve little pay. I would not want to have children, because they are educated in school to think that everything here is okay and nothing is wrong.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo children are expected to fight in the army from a very young age therefore they could be seen as victimised by adult oppression as they are not in any way protected from the tragedies of war. A Panorama program in 2010 showed that the children who live in the Slums of South Africa often go for whole days without food, are unlikely to have an education, and more often than not they have drug addicted parents. Conflict theorists would use these examples to argue that children are victims of adult oppression. However, in the UK there are also many risks that children can face but they are just very different compared to other cultures and ethnic groups: the advancement of technology means that many children have exposure to inappropriate or dangerous things on the internet such as chat rooms, social networks and pornography