BOYS BECOMING MEN:
Creating rites of passage
By Lowell Sheppard. Spring Harvest. 152 pages
ISBN 1 85078 473 6
'These are the years when a young man changes into the man he's gonna be for the rest of his life.' So says his uncle to the teenage Peter Parker - alias Spiderman in the blockbuster hit movie.
Lowell Sheppard shares a similar conviction which has led him to write this book. He certainly has my support in tackling this vitally important matter. As he and many others have noted, there is widespread and justifiable concern about what is occurring to boys and young men, largely as a result of the unrestrained undermining of what it means to be a man in the 21st-century Western world.
