And when boys are hurt, they hurt us—physically, psychologically, and economically. - Warren Farrell

A desire to be nurtured is in our son’s nature. But it’s a nature we don’t often nurture.

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.

Perhaps the biggest appreciation adjustment we need is toward the millions of men and women we call stepparents. We have taken for granted especially the stepparents who are raising no children of their own, and receiving no income from a significant other, but who have nevertheless chosen to invest love, time and money in children.