"As boys without bonds to their fathers grow……" — Frank Pittman
"As boys without bonds to their fathers grow older and more desperate about their masculinity, they are in danger of forming gangs in which they strut their masculinity for one another, often overdo it, and sometimes turn to displays of fierce, macho bravado and even violence."
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Frank Pittman
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26 Quotes by Frank Pittman
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The most likely cause of a man's depression is his failure to be the man he thinks he should be
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Family love can be a bore, but only when you are hearing it, never when you are relating it to…
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Fathering is the most masculine thing a man can do
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A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner…
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A man doesn't have to have all the answers; children will teach him how to parent them, and in the…
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Fathering makes a man, whatever his standing in the eyes of the world, feel strong and good and important, just…
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The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent.
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Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.
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Men who have been raised violently have every reason to believe it is appropriate for them to control others through…
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Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system…
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Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.
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No one, however powerful and successful, can function as an adult if his parents are not satisfied with him.
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