Good, loving, growth-encouraging parenting is what sons need. The number of times parents eat dinner with their children is a better guide to how those children will turn out than the number or gender of parents at the dinner table. ![]() The reality is that it is how a family acts, not the way it’s made up, that determines whether children succeed or fail. And I suspected that children and their families would be reassured and helped by the book’s contents.Ĭan parents in nonnuclear families, those without both a mother and a father in the household, successfully raise children? Based on my research, I wanted to set the record straight and dispel long-held myths about mothers and sons. There are an estimated eight million women parenting alone, and at the very least another 100,000 families with two gay moms. There is a perception in the United States that most American children grow up in a home with a married mom and dad, but really, less than 23 percent of American households fall into that category. For more information, call Maryam Shahsahebi, program coordinator for the Arts and Sciences Women’s Studies Program, at 61.īU Today spoke with Drexler about her research findings and about what all parents can learn from single mothers.īU Today: What inspired you to write Raising Boys Without Men?ĭrexler: Really, I wrote it for all mothers who are raising sons and all of the parents - moms and dads - who are raising children in so-called nontraditional families. In her new book, Raising Boys Without Men: How Maverick Moms Are Creating the Next Generation of Exceptional Men (Rodale Books), Drexler demonstrates through nearly a decade of research that boys who are raised in single-mother homes are just as likely to develop into happy, healthy adults as boys raised in households with both a mother and a father.ĭrexler is coming to BU to speak about the book on Thursday, January 18, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., in Room 106 of the Kenmore Classroom Building. After all, she asks, doesn’t prevailing wisdom claim that boys who grow up without fathers turn out to be helpless sissies, violent adults, or gay? And while few would say the job is easy, mothers of boys have an additional burden: they are often especially stigmatized, says Peggy Drexler, a research psychologist and an assistant professor of psychology at Cornell University’s Weill Medical College. Households where both a mother and a father are present make up only 23.5 percent of American homes, and more than eight million women are single parents, according to the U.S. Twitter Facebook Peggy Drexler will discuss her book "Raising Boys Without Men" this Thursday.īeaver Cleaver would have trouble recognizing the typical American family today.
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