"The need to attach social significance and meaning to gender appears to be a human universal," they conclude, and one that "deeply influences well-being." Yet adults still stuck in the '70s sex role battles have for the most part declined to take on the responsibility of helping our children develop a powerful pro-social meaning for masculinity and femininity.
An excellent article.
And true.
Our young ladies are hard-wired for nurturing and baby-bearing. Our young men are hard-wired to be the aggressive protectors.
Of their families.
Of their communities.
Hard-wired: it means to me that God made them that way.