Mom will never be able to teach a boy to be a man. EVER. Just like a Dad will never be able to teach a girl to be a woman. EVER. Men and women are NOT the same, NOT equal in their influence on a child, NOT in any way shape or form. Only brainwashed fools proclaim men and women to be equal and interchangeable.It does, because the father is motherly in some households. Being a child's little best friend is not parenting, and that is way it takes a mother, and a non effeminate father. You know, that dad that has you hold the flash light while working on a project, and yells at you when you fail, the cornerstone of all of life's future responsibilities. Not a dad that hugs you and says nice try little buckaroo.