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What does it mean to be a good man? Boys need fathers -- or male mentors
Boys growing up without a father -- and there are more of them -- have few male role models.

Joanne Jacobs
Jul 92 min read
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'I'm going to save the baby'
Cleveland is honoring a 16-year-old boy who rescued a neighbor and her two children from a burning house.

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 41 min read
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'For All Mankind' celebrates courage, competence, resilience
I'm a fan of the Apple+ series For All Mankind, which imagines an alternative reality in which the Soviet Union reaches the moon first,...

Joanne Jacobs
Jan 29, 20242 min read
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Help boys aspire to 'heroic masculinity'
Boys need to know that masculinity isn't "toxic," writes Caitlin Flanagan in The Atlantic. They can aspire to "heroic masculinity,"...

Joanne Jacobs
Sep 4, 20232 min read
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Local hero
Unable to drive in Buffalo's deadly blizzard, Jay Withey broke in to a school, went back with a snow blower to get other trapped...

Joanne Jacobs
Dec 30, 20221 min read
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