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| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction: what do you want to be, son? | |
| Competing Purposes | |
| What Is the Purpose of Boys? | |
| We Who Care for Boys and Men | |
| understanding the purpose of boys. | |
| the loss of purpose in american boyhood | |
| Why Parents Want to Provide Purpose for Boys | |
| Moving Forward with New Vision | |
| how little boys develop their sense of purpose | |
| The Empathy of Boys | |
| Brain Differences Between Boys and Girls | |
| How Boys and Girls Need Purpose Differently | |
| Your Little BoyÆs Need to Save the World | |
| Asking the Deep Questions of Boys | |
| How Adolescent Boys Seek Their Purpose in Life | |
| The Young Seeker Among the Primitive and the Civilized | |
| How Adolescent Boys and Girls Seek and Develop Purpose Differently | |
| What Motivates Different Boys | |
| Helping Our Sons Seek Respect in Adolescence | |
| Moving Forward with a Map in Hand | |
| Son, You Are My Hero | |
| The Heroic Son | |
| The Story of Joseph | |
| The Story Ends, for Now | |
| Helping Our Sons Find Their Purpose in Life. | |
| Creating Families of Purpose for Boys | |
| Creating a Three-Family System: The Parent-Led Team | |
| The Development of a BoyÆs Sense of Destiny in the Family System | |
| The Ten Values Tool | |
| The Value of Teaching Sexual Purpose | |
| Helping Our Sons Find Purposeful Work | |
| Helping Boys Find Purpose in Their Media Use | |
| A BoyÆs Search for Freedom | |
| Creating Communities of Purpose for Boys | |
| The Loss of Communities of Purpose for Boys | |
| What the Community Can Do for Our Sons | |
| Forming Purposeful Communities for African American Boys | |
| Changing Helping Professions to Focus on BoysÆ Needs | |
| Enjoying Communities of Purpose with Boys | |
| Changing Schools Toward Relevance and Purpose for Boys | |
| How Boys Are Struggling for Purpose in School | |
| Fixing the Mismatch Between Schools and the Purpose of Boys | |
| Investing in Schools of Purpose | |
| Creating and Providing Rites of Passage for Your Son | |
| Guiding a Son Through Male Adolescence | |
| Developing Your Own Rite-of-Passage Programs | |
| The ôHere I Amö Rite-of-Passage Program | |
| The Power of Purposeful Men | |
| epilogue: coming together to advocate for boys | |
| notes and resources | |
| Bibliography | |
| Appendix: rite-of-passage programs | |
| the gurian institute | |
| the author | |
| Index | |
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