There aren’t a lot of directives offered to young men with daughters. And there are fewer still for those of us who must balance the fading history of a distant home with an encroaching Western culture. We are taught to show our sons how to ball their hands into fists. As if it is we, not an uncaring world, who should first introduce them to violence. But we are told little about how to raise assertive girls in a world men have shaped by silencing women. Our forefathers feared colonization, crosses, and Coca-Cola. But after immigration, we fathers fear raising children who will think it
...more
