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by jkammer on February 24, 2008 - 16:37

Hello, Ms. Marx.

Congratulations on your most impressive recidivism rate.

I especially appreciated your sentence, “It is amazing to see the capacity of people to keep going because they know someone cares.”

I know this question is beyond the scope of your program, but I wonder if your experience gives you any insight into what it would take for men to feel cared for all their lives, so that fewer of them suffer the damage done by feeling not cared-for at all. Also, what does society think it achieves by making its men feel so uncared-for?

Moreover, what do you think of this familiar adage in two parts, with the addition of a third?
If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day.
If you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.
If you love a man only for his fish, you starve him when his nets are empty.

Best regards,

Jack (John R.) Kammer
University of Maryland
Current student, MSW/MBA Dual-Degree Program