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Angie Castellanos
Professor Dr. Song
Sociology 10
December 15, 2016

Mom’s

Mom’s. When you hear the word “Mom”, what are the first thoughts that race into your head? What is the image that you get? Is it a Betty Crocker mom from the 1950’s? or perhaps a soccer mom? A Betty Crocker mom is someone who bakes and stays home to take care of the kids and the household. While a soccer mom is a mother who spends a great deal of time driving her kids around to extracurricular activities. These are the two main images of mothers that many people in our society have.

Society holds the guidelines of how a mother are supposed to be. We may not be aware of it but, it all comes down to what we see in the media, advertisements, television shows, movies, etc. Some messages are clear as day while others are hidden in plain sight. For example, magazines like ‘Good Housekeeping’, ‘Better Homes & Gardens’, ‘Taste & Home’, which are only a few out of hundreds of magazines that are targeted towards women. Many women won’t think anything of it but these magazines have one thing in common; To tell women how they need to be and what to strive for.

As we consider the media’s depiction of a Mother, we see for the most part a neglected aspect of a family structure. First and foremost, we are shown a leader in turn is the father, husband. With that in mind the media’s shows us is that the main bread winner of the family was the male counterpart to the mother. While the mother is left to

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