What a woman can do, a mom can do, is put her son in environments with other men who are healthy. She needs to still be a great mom, but she can't make a boy a man. It just doesn't work that way, and it's a hard reality, but she can put that boy in environments where he will get a vision of manhood he can get attached to. So I just think some of this for a single parent or for a divorced mom or for one who has a husband who is just simply absent, I think what she has to do is make some wise plays, and those wise plays are navigating her son into environment where there are healthy men.
Where that young man is put in contact with the right kind of man. And you know what - a coach, a Sunday school teacher, a camp director - if you choose the right man, those can be powerful.
~ from the radio broadcast "Married to a Passive Male" (June 8, 2006) by Family Life Today.
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