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...kind of raised as a boy. My mom was a stay-at-home mom, and she didn't want that for me. She always made me feel that I would do as well or better than any guy. And I was too stupid to think I would have a hard time...
...Average height for a 13-year-old U.S. boy...
...professor of sociology at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, and the object of her most recent investigations is not the kind of thing you would think social scientists spend their time on. Her quarry, sociologically speaking, is the elusive, zealously guarded heart of the modern-day teenage boy. Giordano--an author of such articles as "A Conceptual Portrait of Adolescent Romantic Relationships" and "Hooking Up: The Relationship Contexts of 'Nonrelationship' Sex"--believes something most people don't: not only do adolescent boys have hearts, but they're also the biggest romantics around...
...itself." Moreover, the earlier work all seemed to be missing a crucial element: past sociologists had compiled reams of data about behavior--what teens do--but not much about what that behavior meant to them--what teens actually feel. Giordano didn't just want to know if a boy told his girlfriend he loved her. She also wanted to know if he really meant...
...thing she learned was that she was right. On the love scale, boys scored equally with girls. They were at least as emotionally invested in their romantic relationships as their partners. About 100 of the boys and girls were randomly chosen for additional, in-depth, face-to-face interviews that were taped. The responses were revelatory in their passionate forthrightness. "You think of it as this way: [Would] you give up your whole life, you know ... to save Jenny's life?" one boy said, trying to explain his feelings about his girlfriend. "I'm like a little girl...