Letters to My Sons: A Humane Vision for Human Relationships

In Letters to My Sons, M. G. Bianco writes real letters to his real sons on a variety of topics from love, hate, marriage, adultery, and interpersonal relationships. His letters seek to encourage his sons, and now other fathers and men to understand the basis and nature of relationships so that both parties to the relationship can be fully human. Relationships, rather than esteeming others in their full humanity, are often reduced to mechanical and consumer-based interactions where both parties are dehumanized. We even look at others as if they are nothing more than an object to be used or desired. This dehumanizes both the looker and the looked upon. Furthermore, we excuse our actions by our faulty views of love, hate, and the rituals that define our relationships. In offering a humane vision for human relationships, M. G. Bianco offers wisdom to make all of us more human in our relationships. He does so through letters that can also serve as models for fathers and other men, women, and parents to imitate in their own interactions with their sons.