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x, 328 pages.
With special sections on motivating boys and managing their technology use. (Title page)
Contents: Part 1. Confronting our boy crisis. Invisible boys: the case for revolution ; The real causes of male violence: confronting the dominant gender paradigm ; Forward-to-nature: embracing the new science of healthy boyhood ; Protecting our sons: ending three dangerous attacks on boyhood -- Part 2. Saving our sons. Male nurturance: supporting and building male emotional intelligence ; The science of maturity: ending the male motivation and maturity gap ; The digital boy: ensuring seven milestones of male development in the digital age ; Saving both our sons and daughters: toward a new gender equality paradigm.
Summary: Boys and their communities are challenged today in ways they have not been before. Dr. Michael Gurian has studied and served children and their families for thirty years and in Saving Our Sons, he features the latest research in male emotional intelligence, male motivation development, neurotoxicity and the male brain, and electronics and videogame use. Linking practical solutions with strategic new policies based on twenty years of field work through the Gurian Institute, Dr. Gurian provides a seven-stage model for the journey to manhood in the new millennium. Moving effortlessly between the practical and the political, Dr. Gurian also tackles social and cultural issues facing our sons. Two of the book's chapters provide readers with successful ways to challenge governmental and academic institutions, as well as the media, to see boys fully and fairly. In its eight chapters, Saving Our Sons is a unique combination of powerful writing, new research, practical strategies, and passionate social advocacy that helps our nation act on behalf of boys and young men--one home, one school, and one community at a time.