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How can fathers play a more important role in modeling a more nurturing masculinity?

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How can fathers play a more important role in modeling a more nurturing masculinity?

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You mentioned Margaret Mead. I admire her tremendously. One of the things that she said in her book is that a fatherhood somewhere in the past of the human race, they got the idea that men could be nurturing fathers. It doesn’t happen among the primates often. With chimpanzees they don’t do that. So, fatherhood for men is a learned behavior. And we need to realize that learned behavior is passing now. We have to say that’s a precious behavior and we need to keep that. I said, It’s easier to socialize a young man into being a warrior than to be a father. You can do that in the marine corp. And men are geared for that in some way, but to socialize them into being fathers is a different matter. We should be honoring fathers instead of attacking them. I think all of the older men have to be one of the reasons we like young men to come. This weekend if we say if you want to bring your son, he comes free. Because it’s important for the son to hear the fathers say how important fathering has

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