Raising Cain

From "News & Notes (1/11/06 - 6:23) comes this discussion of boys and their problems, with child psychologist Michael Thompson, the host of the documentary Raising Cain.

Musings

• Gender differences represent a continual subject of controversy and fascination. What's your take on the general premise that boys have a particular set of problems to overcome in growing up?
  
  
• Behind many of the discussions of helping boys in schools, as to grow up generally, is the even larger issue of masculinity, and whether or not boys (and maybe men generally) need help in overcoming or achieving masculinity. Here two related questions arise: Is the end result to narrow the differences between the genders, and do adult males have any special role to play in helping boys become men?