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Monday, December 11, 2006 12:00 AM

Raising Cain

When I found out I was having a boy, I wondered: How can a feminist raise a man without becoming a hypocrite or a castrator?
By Debra J. Dickerson

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  • Sunday, December 10, 2006 09:37 PM

    Why all the heat?

    This was just a meditation on how tough it is to reconcile world view with the demands of raising children. I had fun reading it.

    But, where does that strange, Parson Jim narrative about public schools beating masculinity out of boys come from?

    —Traduced! Read Traduced!'s other letters

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