Our Boys Are Falling Behind. Why? Asks Warren Farrell

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This is the 30 minute TV version of Jan Jekielek’s interview with Warren Farrell. The longer-form version was released on Epoch TV on October 24, 2024.

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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.”

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, Jan Jekielek gets an update from Farrell on where things have progressed since they wrote their book.

They 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.

CHAPTER HEADERS
0:00 The Boy Crisis: Falling Behind in Education and Mental Health
0:21 The Importance of Father Involvement
3:49 The Achilles Heel of Defensiveness and Improving Communication
7:06 The Pandemic's Impact on Boys and Remote Learning
10:39 The Shift in Male Roles and Purpose
14:00 Feminism's Evolution and the Need for Balanced Dialogue
18:20 The Dramatic Shift in Social Structure and Parenting Styles
22:55 The Value of Constructive Parental Communication

Warren Farrell: “Boys are far more likely to drop out of high school, far less likely to go to college and when they go to college, they're 10% more likely to drop out of college than girls are… Boys are falling behind in more than 70 different measurable metrics, basically everything from being far more likely than girls to commit suicide, about four times as likely when they're between 15 and 19, five times as likely when from age 20 to 24 they're far more likely to be addicted to drugs, to die of drug overdoses, to be addicted to video games.”

“The boy crisis resides where dads do not reside. I saw this enormous power of lack of father involvement.”

According to Farrell, “men have experienced a purpose void and and so that purpose void has left men feeling like, what do I do? What's my role? And that leaves a lot of men not knowing the answer to that. Now there are potentially good answers to that. So for example, high schools could have a lot more vocational training so that boys would have an alternative role. But in fact, what schools have done is cut back on vocational training, not increased it.”

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