If we fail to provide boys with pro-social models of the transition to adulthood, they may construct their own. In some cases, gang initiation rituals, street racing, and random violence may be the result.

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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

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If your kid needs a role model and you ain't it, you're both fucked.

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All the role models are being exposed and this is good because role models are shit. The quicker we exposed them the better. The whole concept of role models is frightful! You gotta make your own role.

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