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Warren Farrell
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“Your son learns the “hero paradox”: to value himself by not valuing himself.”
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“In The Deadliest Catch, the death the men face is the source of entertainment, but not of concern.”
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“The pay of the volunteer fireman? Praise. Respect. Purpose.”
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“These are the social bribes that, if your son absorbs them before the point where he is old enough and mature enough to understand their purpose, can make your son a slave to the safety of others with little regard for the safety of himself.”
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“Many of the qualities your son develops to kill in war—or be a hero at work—undermine the qualities it takes to love at home.”
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“The women who were best able to grow spiritually and psychologically had married men who were the least able to grow.”
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“Nick was experiencing the father’s catch-22: loving his family by being away from the love of his family.”
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“And without love, your son’s purpose has no purpose.”
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“Emma Bovary had everything, and therefore nothing.”
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“The more survival is at stake, the more we say, “Sorry, it’s a girl.” The more luxury we feel, the more we can say, “Sorry, it’s a boy.”
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“Valuing either sex less is unacceptable”
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“Women who have the option of being economically self-sustaining will increasingly want your son to also have emotional and relationship intelligence.”
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“Should your son follow his bliss, it’s most likely the money he’ll miss.”
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“Boys who are not interested in school almost always have an interest that can be catalyzed into future employment if it is pursued via hands-on experience.”
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“A key measure of emotional intelligence is knowing that every virtue taken to its extreme becomes a vice.”
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“We interview people who are extraordinary successes, so they are visible. We ignore people who create a balanced life, so they are invisible.”
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“While your son’s internal security is most likely to be enhanced by the hands-on involvement of both parents, even one conscious parent can lead the way.”
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“Exercise helps build the muscle of a child’s brain even more effectively than studying.”
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“Pick-up sports are excellent preparation for entrepreneurship.”
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“When your son participates in individual sports, plus both organized and pick-up team sports, he will be experiencing sports as a boy-friendly liberal art.”
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“The motto for the evolved boy is “When the going gets tough, tune in to know when to tough it out.”
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“The traditional male hero is about self-sacrifice, not self-actualization.”
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“In the traditional male hero’s hierarchy of needs, self-actualization is nowhere to be found—because the more he values himself, the less he is willing to sacrifice himself.”
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“The discipline of postponing gratification is the single most important discipline your son needs.”
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“The solution—raising a balanced male—requires blending the best of the traditional male with the self-actualized male.”
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“The boy crisis cannot be solved, then, without addressing the most important single crisis in developed countries: dad-deprived children, and especially dad-deprived boys.”
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“Dads—like moms, air, and water—are essential to our lives.”
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“And when boys are hurt, they hurt us—physically, psychologically, and economically.”
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“After divorce or loss of a father, both girls and boys experience unhappiness, but especially with divorce, girls’ grief eases within a year or two, while boys’ does not.”
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“Careers are for Now, Children are Forever.”
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“The absence of Dad creates the presence of government.”
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“Father involvement is an underused resource in the family in the same way that female involvement has been an underused resource in the workplace.”
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“The desire to be a father begins in the son, who sees in his own dad who he could become.”
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“Prisons are centers for dad-deprived males—boys who never became men.”
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“When he is convicted, on average your son will receive a 63 percent longer sentence.”
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“The gap in sentencing is six times greater for men versus women than it is for blacks versus whites.”
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“The gender gap in education might really stem from sons’ greater vulnerability to father absence.”
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“Even when race, education, income, and other socioeconomic factors are equal, living without dad doubled a child’s chance of dropping out of high school.”
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“Father absence is not just correlated with negative outcomes but actually causes negative outcomes.”
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“Students coming from father-present families score higher in math and science even when they come from academically weaker schools.”
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“When children in homes with less income and more father were compared to children in homes with more income but less father, there was no difference in the rates of violent crime.”
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“Not one daughter who had a good relationship with her biological father had a baby before the age of nineteen.”
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“When unmarried couples live together when their child is born, by the child’s third birthday, 40 percent of those children will have no regular contact with their dad for the next two years—between ages three and five.”
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“Half of children born to mothers under thirty were born outside marriage.”
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“The Moynihan report concluded that in a majority-black community the main predictor of growing up poor was not race but being born to parents who are not married. Why? A predictable outcome of no marriage was no father involvement.”
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“While the Moynihan Report identified the quarter of black children born outside marriage as a crisis with a solution in 1965, today the percentage of white children born outside marriage is 36 percent.”
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“My mom warns and warns; it’s like she ‘cries wolf.’ My dad gives us one warning, and then he becomes the wolf.”
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“Teaching a child to treat boundaries seriously teaches him or her to respect the needs of others.”
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“Empathy is a virtue which, when it only goes from parent to child, and is not required of the child, becomes a vice.”
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“Working from home requires self-starting. And children raised with poor boundary enforcement rarely master the postponed gratification that self-starting requires.”
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