Sharma Howard: Lack of positive male role models is very disturbing

Article here. Excerpt:

'Ninety-five percent of crimes are committed by men, that’s a fact every man has to confront — that violence is mainly male, but at the same time, 95 percent of men aren’t violent. So, yes, men commit violence, but it’s a small percent, your son has to know both those things,” Thompson said to me.

And while men and boys get more air time in movies and on TV — 70 percent more than girls — they also are frequently cast as the instigator or troublemaker.

Couple that with the lack of nurturing adult males depicted in TV and movies and you begin to wonder what that impact has on these boys who will one day be fathers themselves.

“There’s a serious dearth of both sympathetic and competent fathers in TV and movies, the best we can do is ‘Two and a Half Men,’ and these are well-meaning bumbler dads,” Thompson notes.
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Female teachers need to avoid approaching boys with a “reformist” mindset, he said, which is woven into our culture of parenting boys.'

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Ed. note: Her heart's in the right place but she's wrong about the 95%-of-crimes-are-commited statistic.