A highlight of this year's Fatherhood Festival held in northern New South Wales in early September was an address by psychologist Steve Biddulph, author of "Manhood". He gave us four key pointers to raising boys. According to Biddulph, the concept of qualitative time is nonsense. There is no substitute when raising children for quantity time. As boys bond most strongly with their dads from the age of 6 to 14, this is when dads most need to be around. In native cultures boys are usually removed from their families around age 14 to live in a community with adult men where they can discover themselves as independent men.
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