Lady ---- is safely delivered of a son, to the great joy of that noble family. The expression, of a woman's having brought her hus...band a son, seems to be a proper and cautious one; for it is never said, from whence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Prizing a male child, although seemingly an old fashioned notion, is still widespread.... This strong desire for boys in the famil...y translates into a difference in fathering. Studies show that men play with boy babies more than girl babies and in general are more involved with their families if they have at least one son. Marriages, on average, last longer if there is a son. Even divorced fathers tend to see their sons more than their daughters (at least until adolescence).LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The good mother knows that frustration teaches tolerance and that instant gratification is not always best; the too good mother me...ets all of her son's needs instantly. The good enough mother knows that a son needs to have ownership of his actions. She stands on the sidelines and cheers him on but lets him run past her in the race. The too good mother keeps her child from becoming independent; she mothers in a way that benefits herself, not her son.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Until you have a son of your own . . . you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a fathe...r as he looks upon his son. You will never know the sense of honor that makes a man want to be more than he is and to pass something good and hopeful into the hands of his son. And you will never know the heartbreak of the fathers who are haunted by the personal demons that keep them from being the men they want their sons to be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Jesus: Senor, the widow Gomez delivered a son this morning, a boy. Guthrie McCabe: Bully for the widow Gomez.... Jesus: But Senor, it has been more than a year ago since Senor Antonio Gomez has been buried in the church house. McCabe: Well, there's some men y'a just can't trust to stay where you put 'em.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be l...ost to the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He had a son whose name was Saul, a handsome young man. There was not a man among the people of Israel more handsome than he; he s...tood head and shoulders above everyone else.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »