The current family faces many changes around the structure, it is inevitable that the transformation is introduced into his system This has caused significant changes in the organization of roles, boundaries and therefore the tasks that are expected to make its members. This identity is also changing, not only for women and men involved, or of infants and adults involved in the routine of the family, but also the identity of the family as a group, rethinking what their limits and social functions within the community, and what may or may not give the individual is born and grows in her womb.
previously thought mature men and women to raise a family, which also allows them to be human beings, each from requirements for their own sex, but today this statement is no longer valid, at least in part. With the family as an institution in continuous process of transformation, perhaps today a process of transformation more pronounced than in the past due to factors such as social inequality and globalization, people have more freedom to build their personal fulfillment in other ways, if is that having a family was once a way, or to experience different models of family organization are not different less successful. A clear example of women today are working to achieve professional satisfaction, when at the same age, women of previous generations spent to build a family, single parents are another example, or the increasingly frequent cases of homosexual parents.
However there are still "locks" that limit the openness with which we generate new family structures, gender stereotypes are so deeply rooted in our cultural discourse, which is difficult to act against them without doing so does uncertainty arise, shame or blame in varying degrees. You can innovate, invent new models uses to interact with family or partner, but today, as in the past century, gender stereotyping still requires them to seek fulfillment as a woman on maternity leave, and who can choose not to be constantly confronted by the community as a divorced woman or the one call at a professional level. Similarly, the stereotype as social policy, it demands the man to devote their full energies to providing support to a family and stay competitive with other men, violating this instruction will attract the confrontation, and as women, disqualification
probable destination for individuals or different families.
Many of the current family patterns do not enjoy the benefit of social programs because they do not correspond to the traditional scheme, which makes them invisible in more than one sense. The difference is still the City of Mexico in relation to other states of the Republic in the capital have made changes to the laws that now allow for legal abortion before 12 weeks gestation, the legal marriage for couples who (or whose) members have the same sex, divorce express when those who make marriage agree, and so on. This opens, at least in the Federal District and the entities to follow this example, an overview of acceptance and development for diverse families in a global context in which traditional models are unsustainable practice.
However this is still a difference very diffuse take time to consolidate the transformation in attitudes about people, the level of the street, coffee chats or bus. In rural and urban communities, it is still common to find men and women who prefer to keep, for example, gender stereotypes and social order of reality and determining their place and role in the world. To date, we feel that anyone who performs or shows attitudes "unbecoming" of its kind, faltered in his capacity as "man" or "women" and are disqualified.
This reduced flexibility to families, within which is developed in situ confrontation between the sexes: women should not work, because that is the job of the male breadwinner, but they and their children should survive a thousand pesos a day. The family system is a system of identities where only one or no one should consider taking on new roles and redefine their own strengths and expectations of themselves, but who see that your partner has moved out of position, you feel an obligation to move as well, Questions may arise such as what if she brings money home, shall I take care of children?, what if it does what it is for a man, shall I to behave like a woman?
The complexity is that the dichotomy of gender (male vs. female) imposes a hierarchy between men and women, replicated in the family structure where the man who has the leadership and the woman who obeys, but is easier to accept the restructuring of the family that changes in the gender schema, because even the bosom of the family, he is first man husband and father, and she is a woman rather than wife or mother, and is more marketable identity that remain within the family that his own gender identity.
As a consequence, the conflict between identities can become violent, with which the social system seeks to maintain the status quo, hence the attacks they must face an independent woman, or disqualification facing a gay man or the situation of the dead women of Juarez, and women have also died in Morelos and other states, homophobic crimes, or deprivation of freedom of women by their husbands. Examples today are as endless as sordid.
And indeed, there is a "law of access of women to a life free of violence" is in practice unknown to most women, who, although mileage may identify this title as an initiative in favor of them, de facto not know how it operates and in what circumstances and which women can benefit. Is it enough to change national laws in Mexico when we have so many of them without rules or without official monitoring or consequences in practice?
no hurry, our society walking towards the recognition of the negative impact of stereotypical "perfect family" of "man machine", the "woman who takes her place" on the daily choices of men and women on their personal expectations, attitudes and identities, it is necessity, which leads us to evaluate our notions of gender and family, and find alternatives. Inevitably leads us to ask questions.
When I buy a child a gun, what kind of adult I am helping you be?, what kind of father?, when I teach a girl to be his place, what kind what place I mean?, "only women are victims of gender stereotyping?," only men engaged in domestic violence?, what are the consequences of thinking men and women as belonging to gender "opposite"?
If today I changed my way of me and act like a man who, or who else, which is near me, will be driven or motivated to change too?; The questions are endless ...
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