Ideologies of gender impact family because of gender roles. For example, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's 5 year old daughter has been criticized lately for dressing as a boy. When Shiloh put on her brothers cloths Brad screamed at Angelina and told her to put her in a dress in fear magazines would gossip about her. Granted this is Hollywood drama, the question is: Do you let your child wear what she wants? or do you protect your child from being criticized by not letting them wear what they want? Either way this gender issue causes stress within the family. Some might say that the child should wear what she wants. But then we are brought back to professors point about the new born baby. Do you mind wrapping your baby girl in a blue blanket but explaining to everyone that she is in fact a girl?
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