Parents and Children

In China, the average family is three people, father, mother, and child. The men are usually between 28 and 30 years old when they get married. The women are usually between 25 and 28 years old when they get married. Mother’s responsibilities in raising children are to clean clothes, make healthy food, educate, play with a child, care for the child and some women are goes to work. Fathers give financial support and a little care for the child. Sometime they play with the child. Today raising children is more difficult than 100 years ago because today there are more needs and they are harder with technology. Parents are permissive, authoritative and authoritarian with the children. The meaning of the family is love, taking care of and supporting each other. I think girls are easier to raises because girls can help the parents and are easy to talk to their.
In China lot children don’t have play time, because parents think they should study more. Some children at college need parent’s support. In the United States, it is different children are independent early in life. They can take care of themselves earlier. Since coming to the U.S. my ideas have changed: I think it is OK for children to have fun with their friends and both father and mother.

Jianping