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...research in saying that only mothers stress sympathy and care to their children and only fathers stress justice and fairness, but his citation of my work to support his attack on Mary Cheney's intention to raise her child with her lesbian partner is completely without foundation. CAROL GILLIGAN NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW New York City...
...Within his commentary, Dobson directly attributes some of the points of his argument to prominent psychologist and social researcher Dr. Carol Gilligan. However, when asked about his use of her research, Dr. Gilligan stated emphatically that its inclusion constitutes "a complete distortion of my work" and went on to say that there is nothing in her research that would support Dobson's stated conclusions...
According to educational psychologist Carol Gilligan, mothers tend to stress sympathy, grace and care to their children, while fathers accent justice, fairness and duty. Moms give a child a sense of hopefulness; dads provide a sense of right and wrong and its consequences. Other researchers have determined that boys are not born with an understanding of "maleness." They have to learn it, ideally from their fathers...
...Gilligan said that while she had not finalized the program’s plans for the spring, she was considering other options such as using the pool at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, Cambridge’s only public high school...
Waters said that other alternatives included temporarily using the Blodgett pool or starting the program up again in January, instead of February. But she said that no matter what Gilligan decided to do, she hoped After School Swim could complete the year...