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Title: Lost Boys: Why Our Sons Turn Violent and How We Can Save Them by James Garbarino ISBN: 0-385-49932-9 Publisher: Anchor Books/Doubleday Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.35 (20 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Lost Boys
Comment: If you read only one book about the inner life of boys, this is it! Appalling, insightful, tragic & hopeful. With the black & white photo of a youngster holding a rifle to his older brother's head & those child-shy smiles, this book is wrenching, dreadful & illuminating. How this author becomes involved in this epidemic of violence among our young sons; what he's learnt from the boys themselves, about how they get lost & what they need to heal & become part of society again are very hard lessons for us to learn. It doesn't surprise me that school rage has become the backlash to the Men's Movement, none of the boys interviewed had mentors or any man truly interested in them. A remarkable book, as exhausting in some ways as caring for the boys themselves. There is hope, it's ever been attention, affection & direction. No quick fixes offered just a solidly pensive read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Read this book to find out how to avoid more Littletons
Comment: If you want to see a clear examination of the problems that lead to the type of terrible violence we saw this week in Littleton, Colorado browse a copy of LOST BOYS: Why our sons run violent and how we can save them. By James Garbarino, Ph.D. Free Press; ISBN: 0684859084
I saw this this morning and thought that Professor Garbarino talks convincingly about the effects of isolation and marginalization of kids (boys especially); the easy availability of firearms; and the effects that point and shoot videogames and violent media have in removing the normal human reluctance that people have innately that makes most of us reluctant to point a weapon at another person to shoot to kill.
Garbarino offers some hope and some concrete ideas about how we can contribute, individually and as a community, to stemming this increasingly common tragedy.
If you have an interest in making your community safer from the kind of violence that ambushed Littleton, Colorado; Jonesboro, Arkansas and all too many other American communities I'd recommend reading this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Really good!
Comment: This book is great,it does not only inform you but it also makes you think. I have thought of how I've treated people and how hopefully I have not hurt anyone because I know that it might affect someone in the long run. I just hope more people would read this book and learn how important it is to not only hear about your childs day, but actually listen. Sometimes your own kid might have problems at school but you're too busy to pay attention, and when the school calls you to tell you your child has been "bad" you immediately start to think of punishments when you should start thinking of why they were "bad" and if there is anything you can do to help them.
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