Fathers & Mothers Let's call it parenting!

This above image is a screenshot from my political science class this semester. The video that is included is discussing the importance of having father's in a child's life. Here is the link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXDU2OXvhi4&feature=youtu.be

I do not disagree that a father's involvement is important the premises of the argument is what I disagree with.  As I shared in my discussion post is that these presumptions made to dictate the custody of the child based on sex or gender would be unconstitutional. There is not any differences in the brains of men and women meaning they are capable of both the same emotional intelligence. Only through learned experiences from families, peer groups, and society are their gender expectations of how one sex parents over another. The same way that men have had more experience in the armed forces and been encouraged to be more fit and agile (Epstein, 688) is the same way women are to parenting. Women are assumed the role of parenting. This does not automatically make either more fit to be a parent at different stages in the child’s life. Reed v  Reed case comparing men to women would not be fair as the men may have had more access to education (Epstein, 437). In this instance that same would be applied for women having more access to in home training do to gender roles. Reed v Reed also solidified teh grounds that the courts “were receptive to sex discrimination claims and would not hesitate to strike down state laws that imposed arbitrary sex classifications” (Epstein, 437). 

Men want to be involved and so do women. We all have the same struggles and helping and supporting each other is what matters most not our sex or gender roles.