Boys R Dumb
Don't be a mama's boy
"Be a little man."
These expressions, so embedded in American culture, are our early attempts to socialize young boys into the roles we will eventually demand of them, says William Pollack, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and director of the Center for Men at McLean Hospital in Massachusetts. These sayings may seem innocuous, but such words "tell boys that they can't show feelings of connection," he says. "Boys are yearning for adult connection."
Pollack, the author of the book Real Boys, believes our assumptions of how boys should behave—that anger, rage and aggression are normal, that "boys will be boys"—are at the root of rapid increases in the diagnosis of ADHD and depression in boys. He says violence is also a by-product of the struggles that boys and young men face.
"These are illnesses we create as a society," says Pollack, who presented his research at a New York Academy of Sciences conference on youth violence......
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