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When you lack masculine role models

I grew up without a father and I'm terrified I don't know how to be one myself, like I'm missing the instruction manual.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Absent or inadequate father figures leave men without templates for healthy masculine expression and parenting.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Masculinity — constructed and contested?”

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