Book Description
Raising thriving, emotionally healthy sons does not require a man around the house! That's the conclusion of a groundbreaking research study that will open eyes, stir debate, and reassure nearly 10 million single mothers.
As the number of single-mom and two-mom households has grown, so have concerns about the possible damage to boys caused by the lack of a male role model in the house. Peggy F. Drexler, Ph.D., listened to all the dire warnings; but her training as a research psychologist told her she had to see the evidence. So she embarked on a long-term study comparing boys raised in female-headed families with those whose fathers were present throughout their childhood. What Dr. Drexler discovered is as heartening as it is startling:
o Female-headed households may be even better parents for boys than households with men
o Sons from these families are growing up emotionally stronger, more empathetic, and more well-rounded than boys from "traditional" mother-father families
o While more in touch with their feelings, these boys remain boyish and masculine in all the ways defined by our culture
Raising Boys Without Men offers an inclusive vision of what family can mean and a blueprint for raising happier, healthier sons.
Suggestion: If you have an Amazon account, review the reviewers. Currently the pro-Father reviews of this book have only one star and the reviews favorable to the book's premise have multiple stars.
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How does trash like this get published? I can't imagine that such an egregiously flawed study would get by peer review except by inertia of shared ideological bias.
The main argument of this liberal boys-don't-need-fathers book seems to be "It's true because I say so."
It should also be important to remember that girls in fatherless households, and boys and girls in motherless households, face the same kinds of problems that boys in fatherless households do.
I'm ok with stupid people who believe claptrap like this, though. It will be much easier for my son to maintain an intellectual and common-sense advantage over people who believe this BS.
Modern liberalism continues its war against human nature, insisting that somehow, despite all experience and evidence to the contrary, fatherless boys readily make good men. Odd, is it not, that the same people who profess such a belief in natural products and protection of the natural environment should so fiercely reject the idea that there is such a thing as human nature?