B) parents determine who their children spend time with outside of school.
B. The theme is the message the author wants to convey.
Explanation:
HER UNCLE JUNE MICHAEL STAMP
<span>Throughout
history women are almost always perceived as the weaker sex, they are treated
unfairly without any logical reasoning aside from the fact that they are “inferior”
to men. </span>
“At
the Hearth” seeks to make people understand that women are not “less worthy”,
they are not inferior and in fact, times have changed in the traditional gender
roles in society.