From: LouisFors <LouisFors@aol.com>
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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 13:04:08 EDT
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Subject: Little girls...what about little boys?
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Friends:

We've been posting about little girls.  You may be interested in the
following.

The New York Times today (April 23) has a long, and quite serious, article
about the need to give more attention to "Boys' Woes."  Titled "After Girls
Get the Attention, Focus Shifts to Boys' Woes."  Two paragraphs to give the
flavor:

     BOSTON, April 22 -- Every April for six years now, as millions of girls
     have tagged along on Take Our Daughters to Work Day, there has been
     a pained counterpoint to the training under way, a parenthetical murmur.
     ("But what about our sons?")

     A similar objection met reports on how schools short-change girls.  ("But
     don't our boys seem at least as distressed?")  And research on how girls'
     self-esteem crashes at puberty. ("But boys dies a thousand deaths, too!)

The article continues, speaking of research about the tough problems boys
have, and also notes a spate of forthcoming books which address the issue.

If you don't have the NY Times handy in paper form, you can get the article
online.
(http://www.nytimes.com)  You have to sign up at the site, give yourself an
ID.  You don't have to pay, however.  All you have to do is remember your ID
stuff because it is permanent.  I keep mine attached to my monitor.

Best to all,

Louis Forsdale