Raising Boys Who Treat Girls Well, Pop Culture, The Husband Hunters

Important conversations and encouraging words to help you make every day a great one. Raising Boys Who Treat Girls Well (00:00) “Boys will be boys” is a phrase that’s falling out of fashion: partly because it perpetuates gendered stereotypes. It’s a phrase that’s frequently paired in explanation to kids with sentences like “he’s only mean to you because he likes you.” As parents and adults, we should know that cruelty isn’t an effective way to show a crush, but it can be really hard to make sure our boys learn the same thing. Today Dr. Laura Walker is with us to discuss the best way to make sure we’re raising boys who will respect girls and women. Laura Walker is a professor at the School of Family Life at BYU. The idea for this segment comes from Laurie Wolk’s article on the US News and World Report, “Raising Boys Who Treat Girls Well.” Pop Culture (16:09) Kacy Faulconer and Lisa talk about all things pop culture. The Husband Hunters (50:20) Downton Abbey was and still is an international craze: the story of a titled British family and their lives in the 1910s to 1920s. One thing that may have surprised a lot of viewers, however, is the fact that Cora Crawley, the mother of the family, is American. What was an American doing in the English aristocracy in the 1920s? Why was she there at all? Cora Crawley’s story is actually not unusual at all: between 1870 and 1910, four hundred and fifty-four American girls married titled Europeans. Here to talk more about these women and why we still care about them is Anne De Courcy, author of The Husband Hunters. The Husband Hunters is a biography of some of the American women who ended up marrying into the British aristocracy: the ladies who traded their money for titles. Anne De Courcy is a best-selling author, journalist, and book reviewer. You can learn more about Anne at www.annedecourcy.com. American Anglophilia (1:07:11) Today, Americans are just as obsessed with all things English as we ever were. But what’s the fascination? Why do Americans love the British