ocess of boys: paternal masculinity, paternal nurturance, and paternal limit setting. A warm relationship between the father and the son indicates paternal nurturance. Masculine behavior displayed by the father in the presence of the son directly enhances the boy's masculine development through the son's identification with the father. Paternal limit setting is the father's disciplinary role in the development of the son. The more the father resorts to punishment, the lesser the opportunities for imitation and identification are provided. Based on Lagrosa's discussion, it shows that the father really plays a crucial role in the masculinity development of the son. It can be noted that the former's absence would, more likely than not, result into a deviation in the culturally accepted masculine orientation of the latter, most probably into a condition referred to as homosexuality.Now that the facts have been laid, what significance does proving such phenomenon manifests? What course of action does it compel?If there are people who should be compelled to act on this matter, they are the family therapists and psychiatrists. Homosexuality deserves a therapeutic attention.It has been established that homosexuals quest for same-sex love to be able to complete the unmet identification process they should have experienced in their relationship with their father. Just as what Moberly suggests, the therapists should be a member of the same sex. Since what needs to be fulfilled is the same-sex attachment need of the homosexual to the father, the therapist should be a male. The therapist, also, should not suggest heterosexual contact or relationship as the solution of the problem. This can do nothing to fulfill same-sex deficits. As Moberly pointed out that "same-sex love is the solution to the unmet developmental need, and it is not the problem." Indeed, same-sex love is not the problem. Still, homosexual behavior inspires abhorrenc...
