189 quotes
Father absence is not just correlated with negative outcomes but actually causes negative outcomes.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
The discipline of postponing gratification is the single most important discipline your son needs.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
Not one daughter who had a good relationship with her biological father had a baby before the age of nineteen.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
If we get more of what we pay for, then let’s pay to get more dads, rather than pay more when dads are absent.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
“My mom warns and warns; it’s like she ‘cries wolf.’ My dad gives us one warning, and then he becomes the wolf.”
The Boy Crisis (2018)
The women who were best able to grow spiritually and psychologically had married men who were the least able to grow.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
To date, our prison debate has focused on rehabilitation versus incarceration, rather than prevention versus imprisonment.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
Among former college players, 56 percent suffered from severe CTE pathology, which was associated with signs of dementia 85 percent of the time.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
Emma Bovary had everything, and therefore nothing.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
We spend billions to get from dads the money few of them have, and virtually nothing to allow dads to give the time they do have—the time their children need.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
The trading of wit-covered put-downs is boys and men training each other to handle criticism, unconsciously knowing that the ability to handle criticism is a prerequisite to success.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
In aggregate, these jobs might be thought of as “glass cellar” jobs—all-male, because it is almost exclusively our sons who are willing to risk death so their family will have a better life.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
In the almost 20 years following Australia’s change in gun policy, mass shootings fell to zero.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
By 2015, in good economic times, boys and men were committing suicide three and a half times more often than women.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
We interview people who are extraordinary successes, so they are visible. We ignore people who create a balanced life, so they are invisible.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
The absence of Dad creates the presence of government.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
When Martin teased, he taught Maggie and Marty Jr. to interpret the meaning of a twinkle in his eye, slight alterations of his voice, shifts in his facial expression.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
“Social workers tend to consider the children’s wishes as long as their preference is for maternal custody. When children express a paternal preference, their wishes carry no weight.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
Nick was experiencing the father’s catch-22: loving his family by being away from the love of his family.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
The rate of PTSD among boys who moved to better neighborhoods was like the rate found among soldiers returning from combat.
The Boy Crisis (2018)