The Boy Crisis

Posted by $ blarman 5 years, 9 months ago to Culture
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Dad's are important and this study emphasizes why.


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  • Posted by $ 25n56il4 5 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I like the way you think. It is a known fact, the best warriors are males under the age of 25. Little devils think they are indestructible. Now, that's why we need more feminine involvement. Women wouldn't send their children into war. We would sit down and figure out how to solve the problem without fighting. You kill my son, I'll kill your husband. Negotiation is the answer.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 5 years, 9 months ago
    Great post Blair!
    The good news today is the same as the bad news. The good news is, and the bad news is, that we need fewer men and males for war. Males are not the sole breadwinner in most cases anymore and … they don’t have as much pressure to go to the top of a ladder and die sooner as a result of that pressure. But the bad news is that they don’t have purpose.

    The purpose void is actually a wonderful opportunity if a boy has a mother and father that are helping him discover his own unique self and the purpose that might emanate from the unique self. But when he doesn’t have a mother and father, oftentimes … the mother will be very supportive of him discovering his purpose.

    But then he doesn’t have the discipline and the postponed gratification to achieve his purpose. So he becomes disappointed in himself that his special gifts that are recognized at home are not being achieved by, you know, being an actor because he doesn’t have the discipline to rehearse all his lines.

    So, he starts to be afraid to dream. And when he’s afraid to dream, he becomes depressed. … When a boy has a purpose void and a dad void, those are the ingredients of the boy crisis.

    When dad is saying, “It’s not good enough to have a dream to be a musician, you’ve got to practice six or seven hours a day. You want to be in the Olympics? I’m sorry, that’s a trade-off. You can’t go out with Joe and Jane and go out at night and get drunk and whatever. … You’re not going to be an Olympic star if you do that. So you don’t give me this stuff about wanting to be in the Olympics if you’re not willing to do what it takes to be there.”
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 5 years, 9 months ago
    I would NOT have done well without my Dad...he's the reason I didn't find myself in Jail.
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  • Posted by exceller 5 years, 9 months ago
    "We all know that 93% of the prisoners are male, but what very few people know is that about 90% of those 93% are dad-deprived boys."

    There lies the problem.

    Children growing up without father in many households, Even in a "normal" family, mom, dad, kids, the children may have problems as they go through the formative years of adolescence.

    Young people need guidance that prepares then for life. In the absence of this guidance, they become the victim of liberal professors in college.
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