Parenting In The Film 'What To Expect When You Re Expecting'

What to Expect when You’re Expecting

Henry Beecher once said, “ We never know the love of a parent till we become a parent ourselves.” Parenting is a hard, stressful, and complicated responsibility, but there never was a more rewarding job. There are a vast amount of things that could happen during pregnancy and during parenthood. In the movie, What to Expect when You’re Expecting, five couples are used to show the many different experiences new parents may have and proves the overall theme that no matter how much planning a new parent does, parenthood is something that no one can completely control. In the movie there are five different couples that have very different experiences. First is Jules and Evan; they are opposites in the way they prepare for parenthood. Jules loves research and she likes to know everything that could happen. Evan does not want to know everything that could happen. This causes some strife

This group is a group of fathers that come together to walk around a park with their kids and talk about their experiences with parenting. The Dude’s Group is a huge support system for all the dads. When Kara, Holly’s friend, tells Holly about the Dude’s Group she praises it, basically saying it is a miracle worker. Holly’s husband Alex joins the group and is very apprehensive at first, but over time loves the Dude’s Group and goes to them for advice often. The Dude’s Group really provides a support system for dads because sometimes in parenting it is much harder for the fathers to connect with the baby, because they did not carry the baby for 9 months. There are some gender stereotypes presented in the Dudes Group like the stereotype that all dads let their kids run wild or that all women try to control their husbands. All in all the audience can see that dads also need just as much support as moms do, and the Dude’s Group provides just that for these