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Not stereotypes, just over generalizations.  It all depends on how you were raised or the circumstances you're currently in.  A single mother is in a position where she needs to be both but how she was raised and what her personality is will determine the amount of success at them.  I grew up in a large family with several older sisters.  Some of the roles we performed growing up were stereotypical and others weren't.  We all went to the woods to cut firewood but me, my dad, and my brother stacked it when we got home while my mom and sisters made dinner.  Not that we couldn't cook, its just that my parents were raised traditional and reverted to that raising when there was no pressure to get things completed quickly.