“Kids are told there are no differences between boys and girls. They are told there is no such thing ultimately as right and wrong. Values are relative. Truth is relative. Morality is defined by individual choice. If that isn't a recipe for sexual harassment and other forms of sexual and physical abuse, I don't know what it is.” IfsKnowsKidsFormValuesChoicesGirlIndividualDifferencesBoysMoralityTruth IsAbuseDefinedRelativeRecipesHarassmentBoy And GirlPhysical AbuseRelative TruthIndividual Choice Author:Rush Limbaugh
“If I had the choice of educating a boy or a girl, I would educate the girl. If you educate a boy, you educate one, but if you educate a girl, you educate a generation.” IfsChoicesGirlBoysGenerationsEducate Author:Brigham Young
“For boys, the family was the place from which one sprang and to which one returned for comfort and support, but the field of action was the larger world of wilderness, adventure, industry, labor, and politics. For girls, the family was to be the world, their field of action the domestic circle. He was to express himself in his work and, through it and social action, was to help transform his environment; her individual growth and choices were restricted to lead her to express herself through love, wifehood, and motherhood--through the support and nurture of others, who would act for her.” WorldHelpingActionChoicesGirlIndividualSocialGrowthBoysSupportEnvironmentFieldsAdventureIndustryComfortLaborMotherhoodCirclesWildernessNurtureSocial Action Author:Gerda Lerner
“Thwarted, or starved, in the important objects proper to young capacities, the boys and young men naturally find or invent deviant objects for themselves. ... Their choices and inventions are rarely charming, usually stupid, and often disastrous; we cannot expect average kids to deviate with genius. But on the other hand, the young men who conform to the dominant society become for the most part apathetic, disappointed, cynical and wasted.” MenImportantHandsKidsYoungChoicesBoysStupidObjectsGeniusCapacityAverageInventionYoung ManDisappointedCynicalCharmingDominantConformApatheticDeviateDeviants Book:Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society Source: Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society
“Yes, we are our fathers' sons and daughters, but we are not their choices. For despite their absences we are still here. Still alive, still breathing, with the power to change this world, one little boy and girl at a time.” WorldLittlesStillsChoicesGirlFatherBoysAliveThis WorldSonDaughterAbsenceDespiteBreathingOur FatherLittle BoysFather SonBoy And GirlPower To ChangeSon And Daughter Author:Daniel Beaty