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  • Teaching Girls and Boys Differently - Psychologist Doctor Tells Why Divergences Run Deep

    07/09/2005 5:35:25 PM PDT · by NYer · 60 replies · 3,271+ views
    Zenit News Agency ^ | July 8, 2005
    NEW YORK, JULY 9, 2005 (Zenit.org).- Boys and girls have marked physical and psychological differences and hence they have to be educated differently. This is the thesis of a book published earlier this year by psychologist and family doctor Leonard Sax. In "Why Gender Matters" (Random House), he takes issue with the modern tendency toward gender-neutral child-rearing. According to this theory boys and girls behave differently because of the way they are educated, or because of cultural factors. Sax describes how in the mid-1990s he began to see more and more young boys arrive at his office with requests for...