雅思7+大作文范文：社会家庭类话题 

In recent decades, there has been gender convergence in terms of fathers taking on caregiving and mothers taking on breadwinning. The reasons are a bit more complex and mainly associated with a shift in gender roles and illness.   

Firstly, equal rights movements can account for this change, and also have spoken for women to gain qualifications and pursue a career. As women are becoming more and more important in every way, they are ambitious for success and social recognition as much as males, then trying to split home and work tasks more evenly. When the fathers who were traditionally expected to be sole breadwinner see the change, they are then starting to convince themselves to accept it, which becomes a kind of self-reinforcing. Besides, illness may also lead to the trend. Commonly, stay-at-home fathers tend to be older than their counterparts, with the majority of them being 35 or even older. That is, having taken on the role of financial support for many years, they have suffered a lot, both mentally and physically, with illness and disability, such as having server insomnia or with a prosthetic, which forces them to make the decision.  

I consider the change to be a positive trend. On the one hand, we should be optimistic to live in a society in which men and women have equal opportunities, and in which mothers are not put under stress to make sacrifices for their careers, especially after childbearing. It finally has become reasonable to make the decision on who works and who stays depending on the personal preference and based on who can earn the most money. On the other, it also seems fair enough that men are given the chance to leave their jobs and shoulder childcare responsibilities. In this case, they can become more involved in the life of their children, attending the meeting with teachers in school and going camping to explore the nature. Then, it will sharpen a child’s good personalities and characters that mothers cannot help with.

In conclusion, the changing roles of men and women are a result of merging trend in society, and I believe this trend has a positive effect on the family as well as their children.