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Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys

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Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys
Reviving Ophelia, Mary Pipher’s groundbreaking book, exposed the toxic environment faced by adolescent girls in our society. Now, from the similar publisher, comes Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys by Dan Kindlon and Michael Thompson, which does the similar for adolescent boys. Boys be afflicted by a too-narrow definition of masculinity, the authors assert as they expose and discuss the relationship between vulnerability and developing sexuality, the “culture of cruelty” boys live in, the “tyranny of toughness,” the disadvantages of being a boy in elementary school, how boys’ emotional lives are squelched, and what we, as a society, can do about all this without turning “boys into girls.” “Our premise is that boys will likely be if boys are better understood–and if they’re encouraged to change into more emotionally literate,” the authors assert. As a tool for change, Kindlon and Thompsom present the well-developed “What Boys Need,” seven points that reach far beyond the abnormal psychobabble checklist and slogan list. Kindlon (researcher and psychology professor at Harvard and practicing psychotherapist that specialize in boys) and Thompson (child psychologist, workshop leader, and body of workers psychologist of an all-boys school) have created a chilling portrait of male adolescence in The united states. Through personal stories and theoretical discussion, this well-needed book plumbs the well of sadness, anger, and fear in The united states’s teenage sons. –Ericka Lutz

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