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The Importance of Having a Father
It's a real open question exactly when boys and girls as well for that matter really most need their fathers. And if your father is a target of emulation, it might well be that you most need them, especially when you're a boy about the time that you hit puberty. I know that there's some evidence among elephants, for example, that the older males socialize the younger males. When when human wildlife curators have attempted to reformulate elephant societies, which are extraordinarily complex, the young males rampage around like mad unless there are older males to keep them in line.