Our Boys Are Falling Behind. Why? Asks Warren Farrell

American Thought Leaders

Jan Jekielek

Government, News, Politics

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

It has been six years since Warren Farrell and John Gray published their groundbreaking book, “The Boy Crisis: Why Our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It.”

A prominent feminist for many years, Farrell shifted his focus when he started noticing major gaps in the conversation about men and women’s issues. He’s written multiple books, including “The Myth of Male Power” and “Why Men Earn More.”

In “The Boy Crisis,” the authors detailed how boys have been falling behind in many key metrics of success and happiness. Boys dropped out from school at higher rates, died from suicide and drug overdoses at higher rates, and committed school shootings at higher rates than girls.

In this interview, I wanted to get an update from Farrell on where things have progressed since they wrote their book.

We also dive into some key wisdom for strengthening relationships and communication from his latest book “Role Mate to Soul Mate,” in which he compiles his findings from decades of counseling couples.

Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

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0:00.0	Boys are far more likely to drop out of high school, far less likely to go to college.
0:05.2	The school shootings in particular were very likely to be done not only by boys,
0:10.3	but boys whose family had been through divorce and were in very high conflict situations and often boys that did not have father involvement.
0:20.0	It's been six years since Warren Farrell published his groundbreaking book, The Boy Crisis,
0:25.8	Why Our Boys Are Struggling, and What We Can Do About It.
0:29.2	I wanted to get an update on where things are now.
0:31.9	There's a reason that men are killing themselves much more frequently.
0:36.8	We're not asking why.
0:38.1	This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Yanya Keller.
0:40.7	And I'm Yanya Keller. Warren Farrell, such a pleasure to have you back on American thought leaders.
0:46.7	It's my pleasure also.
0:48.4	You're such a good question-asker and you really listen so well. I love that about you.
0:54.0	Well, thank you very much and I'm actually very curious.
0:58.0	When we first interviewed back in 2019,
1:01.0	we interviewed about your book The Boy Crisis.
1:03.8	Where have things come with the Boy Crisis?
1:05.9	And maybe before even not, tell me what it is.
1:09.8	The Boy Crisis is Boy is falling behind in more than 70 different measurable metrics, basically.
1:19.8	Everything from being far more likely than girls to commit suicide,
1:23.0	about four times as likely when they're between 15 and 19,
1:27.1	five times as likely when from age 20 to 24.
1:31.1	They're far more likely to be addicted to drugs, to die of drug overdoses, to be addicted to video games.
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