Greetings everyone! This is week eleven of the steemit engagement challenge and season one, and I come here to take part in the contest topic **"Challenging Your Beliefs about Motherhood and Fatherhood"** here in Colombia-original community. You are all welcome to read my article as I write it. ![image.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmQwgXaTnQ1ajacaZPW1h6WjSdPACRJkCfc715iS1XjUpB/image.png) [pixabay](https://pixabay.com/es/photos/playa-familia-divertida-ocio-1867271/) Motherhood is when a woman has children in a relationship or marriage, while fatherhood is when a man also has children, as the case may be, in a relationship or marriage. There are so many beliefs about motherhood and fatherhood as I write this contest with the tips given below: ----- |

Do you think that a man or a woman is incomplete if they are not a father or a mother? Because?

| |-----| I really do think it is wise for a man or a woman to venture into childbearing and caring at some set age in life, as a man at age 40 is due to have a child and a woman at age 35 is due to have a child, and this would make you complete as a man or a woman. Children are not supposed to be rejected because they are gifts from God, and it is also said to man by God to go into the world and multiply. ----- |

Do you think that a father or a mother should put aside their goals or dreams for their children? Explain your answer

| |-----| As a father or a mother, yes, it is truly your responsibility to take very good care of your children, but not to keep aside your goals or dreams of life for your children; rather, you sacrifice as parents for your children on behalf of their own dreams and goals of life. ![image.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmPizp4fESLaH5PUHxfWo3bi8uARhCXXBQRBxw5rpNEXaa/image.png) [pixabay](https://pixabay.com/es/photos/ni%C3%B1os-hermanos-hermano-hermana-817365/) This is because I really do think that everyone has different goals and dreams in life, and that implies that both the father, the mother, and their children or children should all do their best to fulfill their dreams. ----- |

What vision do you have of people who decide not to have children?

| |-----| At some point in life, maybe when they are old, this group of people may regret their actions, as children are also helpers to their parents from birth until death, either in house chores or by working for either the mother or the father. Also, in terms of inheritance, your children are supposed to inherit something from their parents upon their demise. At old age, this group of people would discover they had been cheated by nature. ----- |

Do you think that to be a mother or father there must be ideal conditions? (economic, social and both physical and mental health) Why?

| |-----| Any one of the conditions listed above could make one a father as one can be mentally unstable, but those related to him or her might also choose to marry them to make them have babies and become a mother or father, so I don't think there are conditions for being a father or mother, but this should be at some age of life because a 9-year-old child is not advisable to be a father. I am inviting @josepha, @simonnwigwe to join me and take part in this contest.