To Shape a Dragon's Breath (Nampeshiweisit #1)

by Moniquill Blackgoose

“I expect the cause of it is young men being raised apart from the tempering effects of girls and women,” Liberty said. “It’s not at all uncommon for boys of well-off families to be sent to primary school when they’re five or six years old, and thereafter to be raised together rather like little soldiers—entirely by male teachers and headmasters—only seeing their families at special occasions.”

“Much is made of mothers pining for their little sons when it’s time for them to go to school, but among the toffs they hardly spend time with their children anyway; they’re raised by nurses and governesses and such, and sent away to school until they’re old enough to join adult society. I don’t have any brothers, so I don’t know firsthand, but there is a prevailing attitude that boys raised by women are made soft and unmanly by it.”