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Article: Seeking Remedy for Pathologized Boys.(Brief Article)
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- Insight on the News
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- August 14, 2000
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Two boys carrying a bat and ball and gloves are heading home: "Yeah, it was fun! ... Not a parent in sight" says one, in a pungent editorial cartoon by Bruce Plante of the Chattanooga Times.
A cartoon should not be made to carry too much baggage, to be sure. But there is a deceptively complex focus implied here involving boys and the quality of masculinity, highly organized youth athletics and parental involvement, or intrusion, more precisely. One immediately thinks of the beating death recently in a Boston suburb in which a youth-hockey coach died after a fight with a parent, the latter having since been charged with manslaughter.
The wider canvas, ...