servs said:
Maybe I wasn't clear. Let me try again.
In most societies, parents tend to openly reject the idea of living a life as a single guy/girl. In my case, my dad says stuff like: "When you become a dad and learn how to deal with your kids, you'll understand". And they always tell me that the guy has to be, shall we say, more confidend and protective when it comes to relationships. They're very old-fashioned.
Well, the first part should be wrong, but the rest is right. I say should be as I don't look at other families in the general society. A parent should say that their child is free to pursue whatever makes them happy. Not everyone is set for a married life. I know I'm not.
HOWEVER, for parents, it is in their best interests to be married. An extra income, another view of things, swapping between the roles of "good-cop bad-cop" and never staying as one for too long. In marriage, the wife corrects the husband when he doesn't take into consideration the emotional values, whereas the husband corrects the wife when she strays too far from logic and becomes blinded by her emotion. The same thing applies to raising the child, and is healthy for the child to see both sides of the spectrum.
As for the roles of man and woman in relationships, that comes from the old medieval periods of how we dealt with relationships that stick with us today. Just like how the average person considers incest as wrong regardless if it is consensual, how we are just coming into terms with transsexualism, and how same sex marriage just recently became accepted, are all products of religion in that we discriminate against them due to religion being the norm.