Posted on 08/17/2018 10:12:55 AM PDT by khelus
I came across Dr. Warren Farrell's work a few years ago, when I read Why Men Earn More (https://amzn.to/2HX3Epj ), a careful study of the many reasons for the existence of the "gender pay gap," attributed by ideologues of the identity-politics persuasion to systemic patriarchal prejudice and oppression. Farrell has recently published another book, The Boy Crisis (https://amzn.to/2wnApuy ) with Dr. John Gray.
We spent an intense 90 minutes discussing the crucial role played by fathers in child development, paying particular attention to play and delay of gratification.
Dr. Farrell has been a target of radical left activists, who object to the conflict between his careful analysis and their unidimensional ideology. You can see an example of this here, at the University of Toronto: https://bit.ly/1eS5yHe
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bkmk
A great article on the importance of Male role model with practical real world example is for your perusal here:
In the Absence of Fathers: A Story of Elephants and Men
http://thesestonewalls.com/gordon-macrae/in-the-absence-of-fathers-a-story-of-elephants-and-men/
TU for the link.
I vaguely remember reading that the absence of males led to bands of highly destructive juvenile males. Such behavior is not common or normal in elephant hers.
hers = herds
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