CNN: You start “BoyMom” with an interesting fact that baby boys are not nurtured as much as girls. Ruth Whippman: They’re about six weeks behind baby girls (in development), so a baby boy needs more help with self-regulating with emotions. So, boys need more, and they get less. The story is that boys get girls, and women generally tend to be these kinds of side characters that boys get as prizes for being heroes. CNN: How do we as individual men support the boys and men in our lives?

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