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When a potential girlfriend hears a guy complain, it violates her instinct to be protected; but when a mom hears her son complain, it triggers her instinct to protect.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
The murder-suicide combination of school and other mass shootings is largely young white boys’ way of driving off the cliff at the end of mental health’s tortuous road.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
After divorce or loss of a father, both girls and boys experience unhappiness, but especially with divorce, girls’ grief eases within a year or two, while boys’ does not.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
In the traditional male hero’s hierarchy of needs, self-actualization is nowhere to be found—because the more he values himself, the less he is willing to sacrifice himself.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
If female-to-female teasing and hazing does occur, as in Mean Girls, it signals that the woman being teased and hazed is on the outs, not that she’s being vetted for inclusion.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
Preserving the best of traditional masculinity should be a priority of parents because your son is preoccupied with the paradox of learning how to simultaneously fit in and stand out.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
Both bullies and the bullied have three things in common: both come from negative family, school, and community environments; both have low self-esteem; and both have poor social skills.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
Between fifteen and nineteen, boys commit suicide at four times the rate of girls; and between twenty and twenty-four, the rate of male suicide is between five and six times that of females.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
Working from home requires self-starting. And children raised with poor boundary enforcement rarely master the postponed gratification that self-starting requires.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
When the National Association of Social Workers studies suicide, they study only female suicide.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
70 percent of child support debt is owed by parents with incomes of less than $10,000 per year
The Boy Crisis (2018)
The male-female suicide gap in the United States has tripled since the Great Depression.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
Careers are for Now, Children are Forever.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
One in five young men are not fertile.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
Whether through bigorexia or choosing the death professions, our sons, like our daughters, are often responding to what they feel will give them more approval and respect.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
The more your son wishes to be part of the elite, the more he will abhor being pitied. Yet boys who join the elite today are often the ones who are pitied tomorrow.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
To win wars, we had to train our sons to be disposable. We honored boys if they died so we could live. We called them heroes.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
The more survival is at stake, the more we say, “Sorry, it’s a girl.” The more luxury we feel, the more we can say, “Sorry, it’s a boy.”
The Boy Crisis (2018)
Parenting plans should be consistent.
The Boy Crisis (2018)
The road to high pay is a toll road.
The Boy Crisis (2018)