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Michael Murphy's father worked hard, surrendering a young man's dreams in order to provide for a wife and five children.
``He was a lower-middle-class guy, the son of Irish immigrants,'' Murphy explains. ``He was primarily focused on issues of survival and support. What we _ a lot of us baby boomers _ saw was fathers sacrificing their dreams to the support of the family.
``He didn't spend much time with us, he wasn't affectionate, and I was afraid of him. Fathers in that day and age tended to be distant and weren't trained to be affectionate.''
Murphy, a 44-year-old psychologist for the Massachusetts Department of Corrections and father of three sons, has tried to do better. To say the things he never heard from his father. To listen. To share in parenting.
He has ...