ENGL 101 Chapter : The Trouble With Boys
15 Mar 2019
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Phrases like "lock up your daughters," and "you"re going to have your hands full when she"s a teenager. " Visuals of fathers cleaning their guns when their daughters" dates come over for the first time. Parents losing sleep over their teen daughter"s virtue. It all adds up to a common mythology that says raising girls is more fraught with worry and fear than is raising boys. My daughter, already confident and self-possessed at age eight, will have full control over her own body by the time she is a teenager. She can - with my support - start taking hormonal birth control when it becomes appropriate for her to do so. Should that birth control fail, she can - again with my support - obtain an abortion. Conversely, she will also have the option to continue her pregnancy and raise her baby with my help and encouragement.
