Another important reason for the change in the structure of the family is socialization. In the past, children were socialized different; they were socialized according to the gender roles they were expected to perform in society. This situation especially affects the children, where the females were socialized to be submissive to the men, they were also socialized on ways to take care of the home and be domesticated in nature. This was evident in one of the interviews conducted during my research, in which my aunt responded to the question concerning her upbringing. She told me that during her childhood, she was not allowed to play with boys her own age and she was told that education was not entirely necessary for her because she would eventually marry and become a wife to her husband and she would need to take care of the children. This is in sharp contrast with my sister, another subject I interviewed, and she told me that her upbringing was the same with the rest of us. She was told to succeed in school so that she can support herself without the aid of a man. My sister was treated as an equal to us, which was very different from my aunt, who still believes that men are a little bit higher than women. However, when I questioned her on the ideas, which she passes on to her female children, she said that she wants them to be all they can be and she encourages them not to be intimidated by the men. She believes that her upbringing was not wrong, however it will not work in this modern age "The way society is set up, if one is not able to support themselves, one will not survive". The idea of gender socialization was embedded in our culture even until today, only to a lesser extent because the term socialization refers to the "lifelo

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