Working with Young Males in Psychotherapy: Implications of the Findings of Boyhood Studies (USA)

Boys are now among the most challenging groups with whom we work as psychotherapists. During the past two decades, boyhood has received special attention, and with good reason: boyhood is being radically redefined. As a result, the number of vulnerable boys who require our attention and care has increased significantly. Some of them are just entering kindergarten; others are graduating from high school or college and manoeuvering their way in a world of work that has increasingly fewer places for them; a decreasing number are in graduate school. Ever more are disconnected, disaffiliated and adrift.

Gender Bias In Lawyer's Affidavits to the Family Court

Results revealed that, considered as a single group, solicitors devoted significantly more space to descriptions of mothers’ parenting than of fathers’… They made significantly more positive comments about mothers… When the data were analyzed by the gender of the solicitor, it was found that female solicitors wrote significantly more paragraphs of a positive nature about the mothers’ caring behaviors in relation to children than about the corresponding behaviors of fathers…Male solicitors provided more information on the positive child-care capacities of their male clients than on those of their female clients.. Female solicitors made significantly more references to the quality of parenting provided by their female clients than male solicitors did in relation to their male clients.