Abstract:
This study was undertaken in an effort to explore the attitudes of college students toward primary caregivers. The literature review focuses on past research findings, which indicated that mothers have, in the past, been viewed primarily as primary caregivers, and were seen in a negative light when they did not subscribe to this role. Accordingly, predictions were made about the likelihood of mothers being named more often than fathers as primary caregiver and about gender roles of participants being impacted by having had working mothers. Questionnaires were given to a large group of participants, and results of these predictions were analyzed, with no statistically significant findings. A discussion, including anecdotal information from individual participants, follows, offering some interpretations of these results, and suggestions for future research are made.
