That's My Boy

ISBN-13: 9780091889647 / Angielski

Jenni Murray

Opis

A practical, light-hearted and celebratory look at raising boys with a controversial message, asking that parents and the education system take responsibility for the feminization of boys, in the same way as attention was paid to the masculinization of girls. Media and government attention is now being focused on the fact that girls are outperforming boys academically, but no mention is made of what kind of husbands and fathers they will make. With many families stretched to breaking point on the rack of mismatched expectations, boys need guidance on juggling work and family in the same way girls are expected to; becoming domesticated as well as surviving in the jungle of accepted notions of masculinity. The vital message is that boys, like girls, should have choices and should not be forced into the stereotypical role of the male as absent father or football fan.