Should Gender Roles Be Taught in School?

In a speech he gave on the House floor on Tuesday in support the federal Defense of Marriage Act, U.S. Rep. Phil Gingrey, R-Marietta, shared a few comments regarding those years away from marriage.

In his address (see an excerpt from his speech in the attached video), the congressman said that boys and girls should be instructed on traditional gender roles:

Of my three daughters and one daughter-in-law, they all work. They all work—some of them full-time, some of them part-time. But they’re still there as moms. And when they come home and take over that responsibility, they need a shared partner, and that partner is that partner for life. And I’m talking about, of course, the father. …

You know, maybe part of the problem is we need to go back into the schools at a very early age, maybe at the grade-school level, and have a class for the young girls and have a class for the young boys and say, “You know, this is what’s important. This is what a father does that is maybe a little different, maybe a little bit better than the talents that a mom has in a certain area.” And the same thing for the young girls, that, you know, “This is what a mom does, and this is what is important from the standpoint of that union which we call marriage.”

Gingrey in his speech added that he stands “strongly for” the Defense of Marriage Act and “traditional marriage as we know it.”

Do you agree with Gingrey’s stance that children be taught traditional gender roles? Tell us in the comments.