Ignoring boys' emotional needs fuels public health risks
It is not a father&#x27;s job to be the person a child goes to for emotional support. A father is indeed supposed to pass down masculinity and how to manage it and how to become a socially functional and acceptable man.<p>Mothers on the other hand are supposed to be the primary person that provides emotional support and care. But, the immediate community is supposed to provide that support as well.<p>This is how human society has functioned through history. This is how we naturally function.<p>Fathers being emotional support, mothers being distant and the community being a cold and harsh distant group of people does not work.<p>Teachers and social workers are not &quot;the community&quot;. Children don&#x27;t need psychoanalysis and being taught to think of themsleves as victims if their parents are too busy to attend their school presentations and sports activities and all that, because you have the community right there embracing you and supporting you.<p>&quot;It takes a village to raise a child&quot; not paid employees of schools and governments and psychoanalysts helping politicians draft policies.<p>The entire context of how this question is even being asked is wrong imo.<p>&quot;A child that is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth&quot;<p>Asking masculine fathers to be emotional or telling children the entire burden of their successful upbringing is on the shoulders of their parents is not only incorrect, it reminds me of the proverb &quot;don&#x27;t grade a fish on its ability to climb a tree&quot;. If it is unnatural for a father to support a child a certain way and it is natural for a mother, what is wrong with that?