by Meghan R. Coleman

Created on: May 29, 2008

I envy my parents and my grandparents' life growing up as a teenager. I enjoy listening to the stories that they tell about their past and wish that it were still like that. Sure, there were some things that would have been hard. The Depression, the World Wars and the Vietnam War, and Women Suffrage just to name a few that were hard to live through. I believe many of these events taught courage, the ability to cope, togetherness and hard work. Along with morals, their time was full of respect and a clean sense of family. Luckily, for me, I have been taught many of these things. I just have a hard time incorporating these into my life, considering that many others do not.

My grandmother divorced my grandfather after all the kids were almost grown. I cannot say that she made the right decision for herself because of how long she had to deal with grandpa's cheating and such. She did it for all the boys. She never remarried, and that is just how it was. I do not remember my grandpa because he died from cancer when I was young. However, I know that he was around. As a father, I do not know how he was. All that I know is that I have great father, so he must not have been bad in that department.

Unfortunately, I being one of them, people are finding it easier just to get a divorce. It has become acceptable in society, and in some cases, it is for the best. Whether men want to admit it or not, it is also hard for them to cope with the woman working especially when the woman becomes the breadwinner. The fact that the woman looses a sense of woman-hood when becoming a working woman (and this is different for everyone) and the man feels like they lost their sense of identity in the workplace because of the woman, it is hard for many relationships to last. This is human-nature taking affect. Unless we return to the old ways of the man being the moneymaker, and the woman being the homemaker (highly doubtful and demeaning to the advancement of women's rights), society has to learn how to adapt.

Being a woman in this day and age, learning through life experiences and understanding history, the differences of hardships for men and women have changed. On behalf of the women, it is harder for us to get a high paying job unless we have a college education. Even then, men still tend to make more.

Nevertheless, being a man and a father is this day in age is not necessarily harder than being a woman, but they have a handful of new struggles to over come.

The economy has changed, so

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