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The Effects of Parenting and Proxy Fitness Cues on Adolescent Behavior
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59:11 - 1:08:00 (08:48)

Moms are better at nurturing in the early years while dads are better at teaching adolescents how to navigate risk. Providing proxy fitness cues can discourage men from causing trouble, but may also lead to detachment and sedation.

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Engagement from dads is crucial in adolescence for teaching risk management and self-growth.
59:11 - 1:01:55 (02:44)
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Fatherhood
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Engagement from dads is crucial in adolescence for teaching risk management and self-growth. Research shows that fathers tend to excel at this, whereas mothers tend to excel in early years nurturing.

Chapter
The Effects of Parenting and Proxy Fitness Cues on Adolescent Behavior
Episode
#537 - Richard Reeves - Does Anyone Care About Men's Struggles?
Podcast
Modern Wisdom
In the 70s, conservatives worried that as men become less necessary for economic reasons and marriage declined, they would become irrelevant and filled with testosterone like the men in Mad Max, leading to questions of how to make them useful again.
1:01:55 - 1:03:49 (01:53)
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Men's issues
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In the 70s, conservatives worried that as men become less necessary for economic reasons and marriage declined, they would become irrelevant and filled with testosterone like the men in Mad Max, leading to questions of how to make them useful again.

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The Effects of Parenting and Proxy Fitness Cues on Adolescent Behavior
Episode
#537 - Richard Reeves - Does Anyone Care About Men's Struggles?
Podcast
Modern Wisdom
The growing detachment of men from their families has been linked to the historic decline in crime.
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Men's detachment, Crime, Proxy fitness cues
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The growing detachment of men from their families has been linked to the historic decline in crime. Offering men proxy fitness cues may keep them sedated and out of trouble, but it also leads to a nihilistic culture and less tumultuous way of living.

Chapter
The Effects of Parenting and Proxy Fitness Cues on Adolescent Behavior
Episode
#537 - Richard Reeves - Does Anyone Care About Men's Struggles?
Podcast
Modern Wisdom