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Quotes from The Boy Crisis — Warren Farrell

born 1943 United States

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Your son may simultaneously feel that the male role is pressuring him to feel obligated to earn money someone else spends while he dies sooner.

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We teach boys to associate being abused with being loved.

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Among guys, if you can’t tease ’em, you can’t trust ’em.

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We cannot solve the boy crisis by looking only at boys.

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Father involvement is an underused resource in the family in the same way that female involvement has been an underused resource in the workplace.

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If he followed his bliss, it’s the money you’d miss.

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Women who have the option of being economically self-sustaining will increasingly want your son to also have emotional and relationship intelligence.

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Two-parent stability trumps geographical stability.

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In a study of more than twelve thousand teenagers after divorce, children living with single dads fared better than children living with single moms.

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Even when race, education, income, and other socioeconomic factors are equal, living without dad doubled a child’s chance of dropping out of high school.

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Married couples who tease each other during conflict feel more connected and happier after the conflict than those who criticize in a straightforward way.

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To be a hero is to be emotionally constipated.

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When your son participates in individual sports, plus both organized and pick-up team sports, he will be experiencing sports as a boy-friendly liberal art.

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Many veterans are “rough, tough cream puffs.”

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Whenever only one sex wins, both sexes lose.

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The boy crisis cannot be solved, then, without addressing the most important single crisis in developed countries: dad-deprived children, and especially dad-deprived boys.

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Children express intense dissatisfaction with the traditional arrangement of every other weekend.

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Had John attended to his first son, Julian, the way he attended to Sean, we would never have heard of John Lennon.

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Whether we call it ikigai or sense of purpose, when we pursue what we believe gives life meaning, it gives us life.

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Love doesn’t eliminate defensiveness, because love creates vulnerability, and defensiveness is vulnerability’s mask.

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Warren Farrell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.