1. Dominic'S doll suggests that gender does not affect the ethical custom of double vocation for the Christian father or mother.
2. Some have changed while others have not. According to researchers, many of the old patterns persist. Despite many changes in men, in white middle class families, men become more involved with sons than daughters, showing that the male-sex ideal has not completely faded away. Men are changing in significant ways and becoming more like women especially when they interact with older children. They tend to listen to children talk about their worries more than often than their wives did, undermining stereotypical views of males as incapable of emotional interactions with their children.
3. Scott Coltrane is right when he says that nurturing is learned. Parents get to know nurturing through experience. Scotts study shows the way fathers develop nurturing through being active in their kid’s lives. Only when given the chance to do the work, then men made it. When women and men did some sharing, however, focused on their parenting skills compatibility and similarities in their relationships with children (Rubio, 135).
4. It is important to call God “Father” because this shows Christian’s intimate relationship with God. According to John Miller, author of calling God “Father” says that the powerful, most concerned superiority in universe is neither daughter, son nor mother but a unique father-God who is compassionately and effectively involved with the welfare of his children in the Hebrew Bible. Therefore, this provides men with the only viable fathering model.
5. Rubio is right when he writes that active fathers are not the norm. This is because men are different from each other and while some men choose to nurture their little boys and girls, many others do not.
Work Cited
Rubio, Julie H. A Christian Theology of Marriage and Family. New York: Paulist Press, 2003. Print.
