IN THE NEWS
Dr. Jordan Peterson and Dr. Warren Farrell discuss The Boy Crisis and fatherlessness
Dr. Farrell on Tucker Carlson Tonight: The Politics of Fatherlessness
Dr. Warren Farrell discusses The Boy Crisis on Fox & Friends
TEDx Talks
The Boy Crisis: A Sobering look at the State of our Boys, TEDxMarin
TEDxSalon Marin: The Boy Crisis, Shame, and the Myth of Male Privilege
For a behind the scenes look and post-event Q&A, visit Warren’s Facebook page here.
In The News
Grim Future for Our Less Educated Sons, March 8, 2022
The Epoch Times
“But the endless promotion of girls’ achievement threatened to come unstuck when suddenly parents started to notice what was happening to the boys.Robert MacCann from the NSW Board of Studies released a startling report on gender differences in final school results which showed girls thriving while boys’ results dropped through the floor.
Suddenly, the newspapers were full of stories of irate parents demanding to know what was going on. Parents sent me cuttings from local newspapers showing the smiling faces of girls winning all the prizes in school speech days whilst boys filled the remedial classes or dropped out of school.”
Ladies, It’s Time To Help Our Boys, March 8, 2022
The Heritage Foundation
“The Boy Crisis, written by Warren Farrell and John Gray, tells the staggering story of how our young men are being left behind. By the eighth grade, 41 percent of girls are at least proficient in writing, compared with just 20 percent of boys.
Men now earn 39 percent of college degrees while the median annual earnings of a man with a high-school diploma have dropped 26 percent in the past 40 years.”
Sons of no one | Hannah Gal (UK), Feb 17, 2022
The Critic Magazine
“When it comes to boy-girl time,” explained Farrell, “that sensitive boy is being rejected by girls who date winners, not losers.” Furthermore, he gets addicted to girls and women as objects, rather than as real people.
Online porn creates a level of stimulation that cannot be matched by a “normal” girl in real life. Jaded by the repeated high sensation of online porn, the boy is not turned on by the gentle touch of the girl’s hand, while the hinted sexual electricity of the one to one interaction, fails to excite him.
Renaissance of Men review of The Boy Crisis, July 4, 2021
Chest Magazine
“In his work, Dr. Farrell courageously portrays men as we are: beings with struggles separate from those of women. He doesn’t deny women their experience; rather, he uplifts men in a society that professes—at least on the surface—to value equality.”
“Before we Abolish Cuomo and Due Process, Turn #MeToo from a Monologue to a Dialogue”
Townhall
“Before we turn Andrew Cuomo from a national hero into an international outcast, let’s use the crisis to create an opportunity; replacing a #MeToo monologue with a #MeToo dialogue.”
“Preventing School Shootings: Boys Who Hurt Us are also Boys Who Hurt”
The Gazette
“Two mass shootings in rapid succession have intensified the sense of insecurity in an already vulnerable American public. Yet as schools open, the insecurity will deepen if we remain unaware of how to avert the perfect storm that predicts an unprecedented increase in school shootings.”
“A Gender Policy Council That’s Sexist…and Racist?”
Newsweek
Dr. Farrell’s op ed explores how President Biden’s creation of a White House Gender Policy Council that completely excludes boys is sexist, racist and dismissive of LGBTQ—if they are male.
In Reinventing Home, Dr. Farrell reinvents what boys can become with publisher Valerie Andrews
Reinventing Home
A unique journey with Jungian Valerie Andrews into boys in the context of a loving, educated, cultured family.
Former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia (John Anderson) interviews Dr. Farrell and writes about The Boy Crisis
The Australian
Anderson ranks Dr. Farrell as “one of the most remarkable people I have ever met.”
Newsweek highlights Dr. Warren Farrell’s The Boy Crisis
Newsweek
From Newsweek columnist Lee Habeeb: “Farrell argues that the biggest contributor to our nation’s boy crisis—and to growing gaps in everything from income inequality to incarceration rates—is what he calls ‘dad deprivation.'”
The Politics of Returning Dads to Families: Dr. Warren Farrell in D.C.
The Daily Signal
What’s missing when dad’s missing? Why “no child left behind” is an impossible goal when dad is left behind.
Dr. Warren Farrell on “If Black Lives Matter, Black Dads Must Matter”–and Why The Boy Crisis Resides Where Dads do not Reside
Townhall
Dr. Warren Farrell, author of The Boy Crisis, writes: “If we are to be genuine in our caring about Black lives, we will be as outspoken at telling boys of every race that we will view them as heroes not only when they protect us by killing and being killed in wars away from home, but also when they become great fathers by loving and being loved in the peace they help to create at home.”
Dr. Warren Farrell’s Op Ed in Washington Examiner on the impact of COVID on Dads’ Discovery of Dad’s Time vs Dad’s Dime
Washington Examiner
In his op ed, Dr. Warren Farrell, author of The Boy Crisis, writes: “Even as the coronavirus has deprived many dads of the ability to provide, it has allowed many children to value dad’s time as much as dad’s dime. It has helped many dads experience at a deeper level that, while their career is for now, their children are forever.”
Epoch Times Interviews Dr. Warren Farrell on Mass Shooter Gabriel Wortman
Epoch Times
Dr. Warren Farrell, author of The Boy Crisis, discusses how dad-deprivation might have impacted the perpetrator of Canada’s worst mass killing.
Former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia (John Anderson) Interviews Dr. Warren Farrell in his Home
Dr. Warren Farrell, author of The Boy Crisis, talks with John Anderson about the causes, symptoms and solutions to the ongoing crisis among men and boys in the developed world.
High School Students’ View of The Boy Crisis
Redwood Bark
Two high-school students interview Dr. Warren Farrell about The Boy Crisis. From Ella Green and Nicole Johnson: “For many men, their experience today is defined by numerous stereotypes that can limit the scope of true emotional expression. Some proponents of male emotional awareness and critics of other men’s issues identify themselves with masculism, a men’s movement that is comparable to feminism in its goals.”
The Washington Times Reviews The Boy Crisis
The Washington Times
From writer Cheryl K. Chumley: “Warren Farrell, co-author of The Boy Crisis, says America has a problem with males and it’s one that goes like this: They’re not being raised to be men. And how true that is. Today’s boys are being taught that masculinity is a disease.”
Dr. Warren Farrell to Moms: Protecting Your Son from The Boy Crisis
Motherhood Moment
Writer Tyler O’Neil interviews Dr. Warren Farrell about The Boy Crisis and how parents can support their sons’ development into strong young men.
Dr. Warren Farrell’s USA Today Op Ed is 3rd Most-Read for 2019
USA Today
In his column, Dr. Farrell writes, “In my half-century of research on boys and men, I have discovered that there is, in fact, a boy crisis, that it is a global crisis, and that it is particularly egregious in America.”
Warren Farrell on Point of View
Point of View, Valley News Live
Dr. Warren Farrell, the author of The Boy Crisis, joins Point of View to discuss his new book and how it relates to mass shooters and overall issues in our society.
Epoch Times, in 36 countries, on Dr. Warren Farrell’s boy crisis as a global crisis
Epoch Times
“Ninety-three percent of our prisoners are male, but of those 93 percent males, more than 90 percent of them are dad-deprived males,” Warren Farrell, an American educator and a prolific author on men’s and women’s issues, said in an interview with The Epoch Times for the “American Thought Leaders” program.
In his view, the lack of a father figure in the home is the single greatest predictor of what he describes as “the boy crisis”: across developed nations, boys are doing worse than girls in every academic subject, but especially in reading and writing. And more boys suffer from a lack of purpose, mental illness, and addiction to various kinds of immediate gratification.
Dr. Warren Farrell’s FOX TV Appearance leads to Maccallum tweeting Trump
Fox News
Dr. Farrell’s explanation of the need for a White House Council on Boys and Men led to Martha Maccallum tweeting Trump about a Council, and Governor Mike Huckabee calling Dr. Farrell’s interview “Brilliant” and “spot on.”
Dialogue With Democratic Presidential Candidates About Creating A White House Council on Boys and Men
White House Council on Boys and Men
Individual videos:
- Andrew Yang Demonstrates Understanding of The Boy Crisis with Dr. Warren Farrell
- Beto O’ Rourke Commits to Seeking the Expertise of Our Coalition
- Bill and Shirlane De Blasio Share with Dr. Warren Farrell Men’s Hunger for Connection
- Eric Swalwell Dialogues with Dr. Warren Farrell about adding “Dads In” to “Guns Out” Platform
- John Hickenlooper Shares Impact of his Dad-deprivation, and His Commitment to Creating a White House Council on Boys and Men
- Kirsten Gillibrand Commits to Need for a “National Commission”
- Tim Ryan Discusses with Dr. Warren Farrell the Need for Substitute Dads, But Misses Need for Dads
Dr. Warren Farrell on Epoch Times’ American Thought Leaders: In-depth Thinking on Boys, Toxicity, Privilege and Solutions
Epoch Times
Broadcast in 35 countries, American Thought Leaders allows for thoughtful analyses of, in Dr. Farrell’s case, why the current blaming of men is more part of the problem than the solution; what the real underlying problems are; and what solutions would be most beneficial. Dr. Farrell selects this interview and the C-SPAN interview with Washington Journal (also on his YouTube channel) as his two favorites thus far in 2019.
17th Largest Church in U.S. Demonstrates How God the Father Can Heal Dad-Deprivation Discussed in The Boy Crisis
Eric Geiger
In their latest book, The Boy Crisis, Warren Farrell and John Gray highlight stats and research that point to the pains of boys growing up deprived of an involved father. They also offer wisdom and counsel on how to invest in your sons. Though I don’t have sons, the research reminded me of the great responsibility I have as a dad. The countless studies on the benefits of an involved father and the consequences of an absent father remind us how important our role as father is. In Appendix B of their book, Farrell and Gray give 55 research-based benefits of an involved father (yes, 55!). The body of research on this issue is staggering. I won’t regurgitate the appendix, but here are some significant findings on what happens to a child who is deprived of a father. I have placed them under five broad categories…
John Hickenlooper’s dialogue with Dr. Warren Farrell on The Boy Crisis and a White House Council on Boys and Men
Colorado Politics
If former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper becomes president, his administration will have a White House Council on Boys and Men.
He said so when he met in Iowa with Warren Farrell, the author of the 2018 book “The Boy Crisis: Why Our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It.” Dottie Lamm, the former first lady of Colorado, suggested Hickenlooper read it.
The premise Farrell laid out to Hickenlooper in Iowa in a video on Farrell’s YouTube channel is that boys are a neglected entity in society, and society, families and men eventually pay a steep price for that. Farrell and Hickenlooper agreed that what America has is a crisis-level shortage of men doing the job of father.
It’s good advice to address some of the ills of society by focusing on the future and the men (and women) who will lead it. But Farrell is much more to Hickenlooper, including a political asset. And Hickenlooper’s capitalistic pragmatism might put him at an uncomfortable arm’s length from the wing of his party that’s more attuned to identity politics.
Dr. Warren Farrell’s USA Today Op-Ed On The Boy Crisis
USA Today
In an astonishing disclosure about the two greatest dangers to the future of America’s economy, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell revealed on CBS’ “60 Minutes” last month the peril posed by “young males”: young males not looking for work; being addicted to drugs (think opioid crisis); and being unprepared for the transition to technology. Powell posits that this economic problem is also a national security problem. He implies that we ignore this crisis at our own peril. Yet his warning is ignored.
NPR-affiliate “Kick-Ass News” hosts John Gray and Warren Farrell on The Boy Crisis
Kick-Ass News, NPR
Bestselling authors Dr. Warren Farrell (Why Men Are The Way They Are) and Dr. John Gray (Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus) warn that boys around the world are in crisis and say it’s largely the result of a crisis of fathers who suffer from a “purpose void” as their traditional role is being diminished. They reveal how moms and dads parent differently and how fathers use things like rough-housing with the kids to establish boundaries. They discuss how the lack of boundaries can lead to ADD and ADHD in young men and caution parents to focus on the root cause of ADD before they resort to drugs like Aderall. They talk about the difficulty they’ve had getting lawmakers to take the boy crisis seriously and offer some recommendations for how the government and our schools can help address this growing problem.
Warren Farrell & The Boy Crisis on The Adam Carolla Show
The Adam Carolla Show
Adam Carolla really ‘gets it’–that dad-deprivation is the hub of the boy crisis, and mental health, crime, drugs, mass shootings, etc., are the spokes–and we’ve been addressing the spokes and ignoring the hub.
Dr. Warren Farrell Discusses the Links Between Mass Shooters and The Boy Crisis
KPHO-TV, Phoenix, AZ
The New York Review of Books reviews The Boy Crisis
The New York Review of Books
This March, in a four-part series on Fox News called “Men in America,” Tucker Carlson sat in front of the American flag and listed a set of downward trends for men in school, work, and emotional well-being. Compared to girls, Carlson told viewers, boys far more often fail in school, are diagnosed with ADHD (and take medication for it, which carries a risk of depression later in life), play video games, become overweight, lack a driver’s license, get addicted to alcohol or opioids, become mass shooters, commit other felonies, go to prison, and die of drug overdose or suicide. […] The Boy Crisis: Why Our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It, by Warren Farrell and John Gray, gives another set of such statistics. In high school, boys receive 70 percent of Ds and Fs, are more likely than girls to be suspended, and are less likely to graduate or be chosen as class valedictorian (70 percent of whom are girls).
NPR tunes into Dr. Warren Farrell’s The Boy Crisis
NPR
There’s been lots of great focus on how women are the prime victims of sexual harassment, but little has been heard about the crisis impacting boys in the US and globally. This NPR shows opens a window to look at how boys to men are in deep despair. Warren Farrell, co-author of top-selling boy, “The Boy Crisis” is their guest. You will be surprised by what you learn from this growing phenomenon.
Warren Farrell discusses The Boy Crisis on Fox & Friends
Fox News
Dr. Warren Farrell and Laura Ingraham discussing raising children when a dad cannot be involved
Laura Ingraham Podcast
Laura and Raymond examine Congress’s latest failed attempt to fix our broken immigration system. Plus, Gregg Jarrett exposes the Trump-Russia collusion hoax, and Dr. Warren Farrell reveals the burgeoning crisis affecting young men and boys.
Valentine’s Day and the Parkland Anniversary: Dr. Warren Farrell on How to Prevent Mass Shootings and The Boy Crisis
The Daily Caller
The first anniversary of the Valentine’s Day Massacre-in-contemporary reality, the Parkland shooting on Feb. 14, 2018, brings memories of students-turned-activists and vows to end mass shootings. But mass shootings in the U.S. are now so common that our current rate of almost one-per-day in the ensuing year makes it clear that the lessons of Parkland are far from being learned.
What are the lessons? We can blame toxic politics, poor family values, violence in the media, violence in video games, access to guns, and mental illness. Each is a player. But our daughters live in the same homes, exposed to the same toxic politics, family values, the same access to the same guns, video games, and media, and similar mental illnesses. Yet our daughters are not killing. Our sons are. Why?
Dr. Warren Farrell’s Op Ed on “How to raise the best men”
Washington Examiner
Whether it is #MeToo, the American Psychological Association, or the Gillette ad critiquing men, masculinity is under siege. We hear, “the future is female,” and read books called The End of Men.
Imagine your daughter growing up at a time that predicted “the end of women.” No boy or girl has ever before grown up in a time that predicted the end of their gender. Anticipation of “the end of men” is not exactly an inspiration for your son’s life journey.
The Future of Boys and Men: Gillette vs. Warren Farrell, or Gillette plus Warren Farrell?
Rebel Wisdom
Of the many people Rebel Wisdom Interviewed about the future of men, they focus on Dr. Warren Farrell’s insights to give depth and perspective to the January 15, 2019 ad by Gillette that attacked toxic masculinity while pleading for a better man in the future.
Town Hall review of The Boy Crisis
Town Hall
The 27 chapters written by Dr. Farrell are eloquently written. Yet they are also rife with fascinating, little-known information that is documented with about a thousand footnotes. Farrell empowers parents with identifying the symptoms of the boy crisis, pinpointing its underlying causes, and offering practical, everyday solutions for families, schools and policy-makers.
Solving the Boy Crisis via Checks-and-Balance Parenting
The Smart Couple with Jayson Gaddis
Did you know boys without father figures almost always perform more poorly in over 70 different areas of life than boys with dads, including every single academic subject!?!
In his new book The Boy Crisis famous author and researcher Warren Farrell (with co-author John Gray) unpacks data showing nothing predicts hardship in a boy’s life more than being ‘dad deprived’. Originally working in the feminist movement, Farrell has become a champion for men, boys and dads.
Come at this episode with an open mind and prepare to be challenged so we can learn to raise better men and live in a better, healthier world!
Dr. Warren Farrell on “Is this a very scary time for your son?”
Minding the Campus
When a recent Canadian study of about 30,000 students between 7th and 12th grade found that more boys than girls were victims of physical dating violence, the reaction was one of disbelief. Accusations of male sexual harassment were exploding from the university campuses to the boardrooms of Fortune 500 companies, begetting the #MeToo movement.
The most memorable perpetrators of sexual assault against women committed heinous acts: some women had been drugged and raped; others had been fired after they rebuffed an overt sexual assault. But many other acts were considered by both men and women to be normal fun and flirtation. During the media frenzy, abuse against men was never even reported as a footnote as men—good and bad—were accused and labeled as sexual predators.
USA Today’s Op Ed by Warren Farrell on Kavanaugh Past vs. Our Sons’ Future
USA Today
During my years with the National Organization for Women, I saw women struggle to share their truths, and I honor the culmination of this with #MeToo. And during a half-century of forming some 300 men’s groups, I saw that men had their own truths, especially among divorced dads who felt the courts and moms were depriving them of equal time with their children.
Warren Farrell on why we don’t know about boys being the more likely victim of teen dating violence
PJ Media
A recent study has found that Canadian teen boys are more likely to be victims of physical dating violence, a disparity that has been documented — but rarely reported on — by researchers in other English-speaking countries. The study, “Ten Year Trends in Physical Dating Violence Victimization Among Adolescent Boys and Girls,” draws from a survey that was administered to nearly 30,000 students in 7th through 12th grade in western Canada.
“During the past 12 months, did your boyfriend or girlfriend ever hit, slap or physically hurt you on purpose?” the study asked Canadian teens, along with dozens of other questions about eating habits, grades, and friendships.
Time for all of us to take a dose of ‘The Red Pill’
Danielle Smith: Global News
Cassie Jaye, documentary filmmaker for the supposedly controversial movie “The Red Pill,” and Dr. Warren Farrell, author of The Boy Crisis, are teaming up for a full day seminar at the University of Calgary Downtown Campus to discuss important issues facing men and boys.
Dr. Warren Farrell in an in-depth interview on The Boy Crisis
Matt Allen Uncut – WPRO Podcasts
This week Dr. Warren Farrell joins Matt Allen to discuss the difficulties that men face and the social wreckage that comes from dad deprived children. The Boy Crisis, and hopefully this interview, will give you a perspective on how men are not doing well in the developed world and why that’s happening. Dr. Farrell has done 11 years of work on this book and he’s discovered the reason why so many things seem to be falling apart in our society.
From Roughhousing to Postponed Gratification: Solutions to The Boy Crisis
Order of Man
There is no question, our boys are in trouble. Take a look at any metric and it becomes painfully obvious that our young men are falling behind – violence, grades, drug abuse, and suicide to name a few. The questions is not, “Is it happening?” but, “Why?”
Dr. Warren Farrell discusses how men have fallen into a “purpose void,” why boys need to be raised differently than girls, the rise of the Incels, and how to deal with the emerging boy crisis.
Newsmax review of The Boy Crisis by Dr. Warren Farrell
Newsmax
For fathers of sons, like myself, “The Boy Crisis” is mandatory reading. I have for many years shared with others that I am far more concerned about my son growing up these days than my daughters.
Certainly Dr. John Gray has long annoyed academics and liberals by claiming that men and women are different (He wrote “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus”). But Dr. Farrell was once a darling of the liberal media as the only man ever elected three times to the Board of the National Organization for Women in NYC. What this “odd couple” has produced is the most frightening, yet thorough, courageous and insightful books ever written on the problems facing our sons, as well as the causes. And most important, “The Boy Crisis” is filled with hundreds of practical solutions that every parent, educator or policy-maker can use to turn the crisis into an opportunity.
Dr. Warren Farrell on The Feminist Flaw: Forgetting Fathers and Family
Free the People & CRTV
“All around the world, what I’ve found is when boys are in crisis, it’s usually the result of them not having involved fathers.”
Warren Farrell, Ph.D. says feminists still don’t understand how serious the fatherless epidemic truly is.
John Stossel focuses on Warren Farrell’s analysis of Boys’ need for fathers
The Patriot Post
Warren Farrell was once considered a feminist leader. He hung around with Gloria Steinem and wrote about why men and women should break out of rigid old gender roles. But then, as he learned more, he started to disagree with parts of modern feminism.
“I don’t agree with the part of feminism that says men are the oppressors and women are the oppressed,” he says in our latest Stossel TV video. “That part of feminism is sick.”
How Government Caused ‘The Boy Crisis’
from Reason / John Stossel
Warren Farrell, author of The Boy Crisis, was once associated with the feminist movement. Then he changed his views. “I don’t agree with the part of feminism that says, ‘Men are the oppressors and women are the oppressed,'” Farrell tells Maxim Lott, a senior producer of Stossel on Reason.
Parent-Child Separation: Dr. Warren Farrell’s Challenge: Outrage on the Border, No Outrage at Divorce?
from KTVU-TV
The Boy Crisis: An Interview with Dr. Warren Farrell
from Parvati Magazine
In a climate of changing gender roles and social mores, young people face new challenges as they grow up. Dr. Warren Farrell, heralded by the Financial Times as one of the world’s top 100 thought leaders, says there’s a crisis today for boys all over the world who are not getting the guidance or support they need.
The Boy Crisis, The Dad Solution
from Town Hall
Farrell says the boy crisis is global. Among the 60 largest developed nations, boys are falling behind girls in every academic area, as well as in social skills, career preparation, mental health and physical health. He found that in developed nations, with fewer survival concerns, there was less stigma for women to have children without being married. In the U.S., for example, 53 percent of women under 30 who have children are not married. Among these women, dad-deprived children are the norm. Dad-deprived girls suffer considerably, but the boys (with no role model) suffer even more.
Warren Farrell on The Boy Crisis in Washington, DC
from DCW50 News
A new book is looking into the reasons why boys are at the center of the violence, crime and mayhem in developed nations like the United States. At the same time, the District of Columbia is in the midst of what some could characterize as a crime wave. On Wednesday night alone there were three separate shootings resulting in one death and 4 injuries.
“The crime is an integral part of The Boy Crisis,” said Warren Farrell, coauthor of The Boy Crisis. “I met yesterday with three Superior Court judges here in D.C. and they said of the people they see everyday (that are almost all involved in crime) almost 90 percent of them have no fathers.”
Warren Farrell “Asks Are Christians the Progressives?”
from The Christian Post
The Christian church has long supported marriage, an intact family, and father involvement. Yet we have called it “progressive” to focus on women’s freedom to have children without being married, or to be the primary parent after divorce. And currently, 53% of women under 30 who have children, do so without being married.
In the past eleven years, as I have researched The Boy Crisis, I have found that children with minimal or no father involvement—and especially boys—are much more likely to suffer in more than seventy ways. Even if a mom has a child while living with a man, but is not married, 40% of these children rarely see their dad after the age of three. If “progressive” is defined as what benefits the children, then the Christian church has been the progressive force.
Chat With Warren Farrel – Dad’s Time vs Dad’s Dime, The Boy Crisis
from We Are Better Men Podcast
Warren Farrell author of The Boy Crisis is back on the We Are Better Men podcast. This time he chats with Leland about co-parenting, parenting, fatherhood and the impact fathers have in their children’s lives.
Warren Farrell Discusses The Boy Crisis on Larry Rifkin’s America Trends Podcast
from America Trends
We know the movement ‘Black Lives Matter’, but after hearing Dr. Warren Farrell address the problem, you will wonder why there is no analog to that called ‘Boys Lives Matter’. By virtually any measure, boys in America are in crisis. They are falling behind in schools, being yanked out of the workforce as automation and offsourcing sideline them and they are often left to grow up without fathers. And killing their peers. In ‘The Boy Crisis’, Dr. Farrell and co-author, Dr. John Gray(who also wrote ‘Men are from Venus, Women are From Mars’)turn these sobering numbers about boys in our culture into a story untold that has profound implications for our society. Dr. Farrell will have you asking what you can do to reverse this most disturbing trend in our country
Warren Farrell on The Final 5 Discussing The Boy Crisis
from WTTG-TV
Dr. Warren Farrell on The Final 5 discussing the causes of the boy crisis.
The Boy Crisis: Why Boys Who Hurt, Hurt Us
from American Freedom Alliance
Dr. Warren Farrell at the AFA conference on School Shootings.
Dr. Warren Farrell on WBT on Father’s Day and John Lennon
from WBT Carolina Focus
Dr. Warren Farrell, author of The Boy Crisis, talks about the importance of Dads, in advance of Fathers Day.
According to Dr. Warren Farrell, the boys are not all right
from Northern Virginia Magazine
Boys are often brought up to believe that when the going gets tough, the tough gets going—don’t complain, buckle down and work hard to achieve the result you want. Dr. Warren Farrell, PhD, contends that this mentality could actually be a part of the problem that he describes as “the boy crisis” in his book of the same name, which came out in March.
Feature Article: “The Kids Are Alright …Or Are They?”
from SVPN’s Wellness Festival Issue
The Centers for Disease Control reports that suicide is the third leading cause of death behind accidents and homicides of people ages 15 to 24. Even more disturbing is the fact that suicide is the fourth leading cause of death for children between the ages of 10 and 14. Childhood definitely seems tough today. The classic pressures of being popular, smart, athletic, and pretty still exist, but the intensity is on steroids.
The Boy Crisis with Warren Farrell
from On Boys Podcast
Your son is not the only one struggling. According to Dr. Warren Farrell — and a slew of research — boys in 63 of the largest developed nations are faring worse than girls. They’re doing worse academically. They’re falling behind in the workplace. And their physical and mental health is failing as well.
In his new book, The Boy Crisis: Why Our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It, Farrell (and his co-author, John Gray) examine the many factors contributing to the boy crisis. They also point toward possible solutions. Solving the boy crisis will take a lot of effort on the part of parents, teachers and politicians, but it’s a cause that’s well worth our attention, because when our boys suffer, society suffers.
Barbara Kay: The male crisis that’s ruining our boys and no one cares about
from National Post
Father’s Day approaches and with it the opportunity to consider the importance of fathers to their children.
It is difficult to overstate both the positive effects of growing up with a father and the negative effects of father absence, especially for boys. These myriad benefits and perils are on record, undisputed and easily accessible. But in this gynocentric era, what is good or bad for boys does not seem to attract the interest of our cultural elites.
Warren Interviewed by Danielle Smith: The crisis no one talks about
from Global News Radio
At some point – soon I am hoping – feminists are going to realize they have solved all the problems they set out to solve for girls and we can turn our attention to real problem now facing society: the boy crisis.
I think we are so unprepared to see the problems right in front of our eyes. When I interviewed Dr. Warren Farrell, author of The Boy Crisis: Why Our Boys are Struggling And What We Can Do About It, I asked him to start by identifying the problems facing boys.
Attention Must Be Paid: Warren Farrell and the Boy Crisis
from Psychology Today
I do understand, sadly, why men — and their real problems — don’t get the attention they deserve by the academy, the media, and government (what Michael Gurian calls “The Big Three” in his 2017 book, Saving Our Sons). But what I still can’t fathom is why boys don’t either, except that they are men-to-be.
Warren Farrell, who has been concerned about men for well over 30 years, has recently turned his attention to boys, and the result is The Boy Crisis: Why Our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It (which he has coauthored with John Gray). Actually, worry about boys is not new. In fact, a cover story in Newsweek magazine in early 2006 is titled “The Boy Crisis: At Every Level of Education, They’re Falling Behind: What to Do.”
Dr. Warren Farrell, Andrew Klavan, and Kyle Kushuv on School Shootings
from Whiskey Politics
Live from the American Freedom Alliance School Shooting Conference, Dave interviews 9 speakers on one of the most heart-wrenching issues of our time, the epidemic of school shootings. This is the first of three episodes, each with three speakers.
Dr. Warren Farrell Ph.D. discusses “The Boy Crisis”, Why Our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It.
Understanding Boys who become Incels (Involuntarily Celibate)
from The Lost Angeles Times
In its original meaning, “incel” was one of those portmanteau words, “involuntary” and “celibate,” and it just meant those socially uncertain and lonely people who were traveling solo through life, and wished they weren’t. Now it has been packed with gunpowder.
Why this, why now? Warren Farrell was a high-profile pioneer of feminist men who later studied modern men’s problems in his influential book, “The Myth of Male Power.” With John Gray, he’s written “The Boy Crisis: Why Our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It.” And he has some thoughts about why some incels turn out the way they do.
Never Mind the Boys by Dr. Warren Farrell
from Minding The Campus
In 1970, I was elected to the Board of Directors of the National Organization for Women in New York City. This quickly triggered invitations to speaking on campuses throughout the U.S.—from Yale to Harvard to Stanford. Each engagement led to an average of three more.
However, after starting hundreds of men’s and women’s groups — one of which was joined by John Lennon — I began integrating the life experiences of college men into my talks. I soon invited my entire audiences of college men and women to “walk a mile in each other’s moccasins”—the men in “men’s beauty contests” to experience the beauty contest of everyday life in which every woman participates; and then the women to take a few of the many risks of sexual rejection the guys typically experience.
The Boy Crisis And What DC Community Leaders Can Do About It
From the event page:
After discussing the evidence and causes of a global boy crisis, the co-author of The Boy Crisis, Dr. Warren Farrell, will facilitate an in-depth discussion among community leaders, legislators and government officials as to what can be done about it. Leaders will exchange ideas and build alliances both with each other and the community in both small and large group settings. Media will be invited to report the most promising plans.
Conversation with Bruce Dowbiggin on The Full Count podcast on Not The Public Broadcaster
Warren and Bruce Dowbiggin discuss The Boy Crisis on The Full Count podcast on Not The Public Broadcaster.
Uncorking the Boy Crisis story with Dr. Warren Farrell and Michael Carlon
Warren Farrell and Michael Carlon discuss the biggest challenges facing boys today, why the role of an active father is critical in a boy’s life, and what can be done to address and reverse the trends we are seeing.
Why Are Dads So Important? by Warren Farrell
from The Daily Caller
When I began the research for The Boy Crisis some eleven years ago and discovered that boys in more than 60 of the largest developed nations were falling behind academically, and in mental health (e.g., suicide; shootings); physical health (e.g., sperm count, IQs); and in preparation for employment, I naturally wondered why this was the case. I was able to identify 10 causes. But one cause consistently surfaced as more pivotal than the others: minimal or no father involvement. What I came to call “dad-deprivation.”
Bettina Arndt and Warren Farrell Discuss The Boy Crisis
Bettina Arndt, formerly a full-time mainstream journalist in Australia, and also a sex therapist, is now the world’s leading female journalist who feels empathy for boys and men has been neglected as we’ve focused on men as oppressors and women as oppressed. Take a look at her YouTube videos.
Dr. Warren Farrell and Stefan Molyneux on The Boy Crisis: Parents and Politics
Dr. Warren Farrell on The Boy Crisis as a book of Integral Thinking, a la Ken Wilber. With Jeff Salzman.
Today Jeff is joined by Dr. Warren Farrell, who has co-authored (with John Gray) a new book, The Boy Crisis: Why Our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It. The book illustrates how boys are falling behind girls in crucial metrics of well-being: in academics (61% of college degrees will go to females by 2020), in mental and physical health (boys commit suicide at six times the rate of girls), in behavioral problems, career prospects, even life expectancy.
Dr. Warren Farrell on CNN and the Daily Beast: The Boy Crisis
Warren Farrell, PhD, talks about The Boy Crisis: Why our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It. Make sure to stick around until the end, where Dr. Farrell gives Matt some advice on raising his two boys.
National Review on The Boy Crisis: The Decline of Boys
Today’s boys are in very bad shape. That’s the key takeaway from The Boy Crisis: Why Our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It. The new book, a joint effort from Warren Farrell, author of The Myth of Male Power, and John Gray, author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, combines wide-reaching research, analysis, and self-help advice.
In the first, and most striking, of its six parts, The Boy Crisis explains how “boys are declining in a dramatic way in virtually every key metric.” This section contains many startling findings.
Dads4Kids Newsletter Features The Boy Crisis
A fascinating fact has emerged in the aftermath of the Parkland, Florida mass shooting: 26 of the 27 deadliest mass shooters in American history all happened to share one thing in common. What might that be? Your favorite liberal might pipe up with anything and everything from casting a vote for Donald Trump to NRA membership to a seat in the local megachurch. Nope.
All but one of the 27 was raised without his biological father.
The list of 27 was compiled by CNN. Suzanne Venker, a marriage-family expert, went through the family backgrounds of the 27 shooters, where she found only one “raised by his biological father since childhood.”
Link between mass shooters, absent fathers ignored by anti-gun activists
from Washington Times
Gun control activists are quick to blame mass shootings on the proliferation of firearms, but are less likely to point to the proliferation of fatherless households.
Yet research shows that school shooters tend to come from broken homes, where one or more parent is absent, addicted or abusive.
Grady Harp’s Review of The Boy Crisis
from San Francisco Review of Books
Warren addresses the crises in our sons’ mental health, physical health, economic health, education, and then discusses why the boy crisis isn’t our fault! Never stepping into the arena of blame but always remaining on the side of support, we discusses the power of purpose, the ‘Hero Paradox’, why marriages in this country fail more frequently than elsewhere, the schism between boys who are dad-deprived versus dad-enriched, a major exploration of the Dad role, and an illuminating section on heroic intelligence versus health intelligence, highlighting thoughts on boys with ADHD.
Fatherlessness Breeding School Gun Violence
from Church Militant
The February 14 school massacre in Parkland, Florida, has reinvigorated the push for gun control in the United States, sparking a wave of student walkouts championed by the Leftist media and political establishments.
But, conservatives argue, activists are missing the mark by attacking gun ownership. Instead, they suggest the growing raft of mass shootings is a symptom of a deeper social, cultural and spiritual crisis engulfing America.
Focusing on Fathering: My Journey Through the Men’s Movement
from The Good Men Project
These men are leading the charge in healing the wounds that can lead to aggression and violence.
The Boy Crisis: Why Our Boys Are Struggling
from Common Ground
Warren Thomas Farrell was born in New Jersey in 1943 and came to prominence in the 1970s as a male champion of feminism. He worked side by side with the likes of Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem, and served on the board of the National Organization of Woman (NOW) in New York City. His views have since evolved, and while he is known as the father of the men’s movement, he now advocates for neither a men’s movement nor a women’s movement but instead for a “gender liberation movement” that frees both sexes from their past rigid roles.
The Three Biggest Causes of School Shootings
by Warren Farrell
Courtesy of CRTV and Free the People.
Dr. Farrell on the Boy Crisis and School Shootings: Why Boys Who Hurt, Hurt Us.
Courtesy of CRTV and Free the People.