Raising Boys

text: Raising Boys by Steve Biddulph
Texts should have social relevance and also entertain. The best-selling non-fiction book, Raising Boys by Steve Biddulph, is an example of a text, which does this. It presents issues, which affect the people of today's society, such as boys failing at school, domestic violence, communication difficulties, delinquency, homosexuality and sexual abuse. In order to encourage parents to read his text and accept his ideas on these issues, Biddulph has used humour, user-friendly language, everyday examples and "In a nutshell" additions, to make his text enter…