Boys will be boys
Title: Boys will be boys
Category: Literature / English | Words: 5098 | Pages: 21.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Boys will be boys
ARE boys in trouble today? Their situation is desperate, according to a coalition of clinical and academic psychologists. The alarming news has been trumpeted in scholarly journals as well as in several bestselling books, most notably William Pollack's Real Boys and Michael Gurian's The Wonder of Boys and A Fine Young Man. Both Pollack, codirector of the Center for Men at McClean Hospital of Harvard Medical School, and Gurian, a Washington-based family therapist, want to …
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showed last 75 words of 5098 total…I do think that it is instructive to remind ourselves of what children have endured. Sending an apprehensive child off to kindergarten is rather innocuous by comparison.
My advice to the boy advocates is to read less Freud and more history. They would gain more respect for children's resiliency. They might even learn to appreciate the difference between raising boys and raising girls.
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**Bibliography**
Gwen J. Broude, Boys will be boys. , The Public Interest, 07-01-1999, pp 3-17.
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