“Boys are falling behind girls at all levels of education—in K–12 schools, at college and in graduate programs. The number of young men who participate in the job market is dropping. Men are more than three times more likely than women to commit suicide. The numbers are especially stark for boys from low-income families and for those who are Black.'Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It.' A conversation with Richard Reeves."

"Other national data show that teenage boys are more likely to die of suicide. Teenage boys’ unrecognized mental health struggles may play a role in explaining that discrepancy, as might the fact that boys are more likely to use a firearm in a suicide attempt. Impulsivity may also be a factor. Males who are depressed are more likely to engage in impulsive, risky, or violent acts than those who are not depressed, some research shows."

"Can you get a job? A career? Can you educate yourself? Can you regulate the draw of temptations? Drug and alcohol use in particular? Sexual temptation as well? Do you do anything remotely resembling civic responsibility? Are you a member of a political party? Do you go to church?" In Dr Peterson's series, "Dragons, Monsters, and Men," he dives into what makes a man.

"Reeves’s solutions to this problem come close to understanding the need for a reevaluation of what it means to be a man (and woman), but these solutions cannot be fully accepted and digested without setting the right philosophical and conceptual background for them."

"Richard Reeves is a senior fellow at Brookings, where he directs the Boys and Men Project. He’s also been the director of Demos—the London-based political think tank—an adviser to Nick Clegg in David Cameron’s coalition government, and a Guardian journalist. His latest book is 'Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It.' (For more, follow his new substack.)

"I’m fascinated by the challenges of modernity for the weaker sex (men), and Richard has grappled with the questions more calmly than most."

"I looked at over 11,000 hospitalizations in Ontario for eating disorders of children and adolescents aged 5 to 17 from 2002 to 2019. What I found was that while rates of hospitalization increased overall by 139 percent, the largest relative increase was among males: Their rate of hospitalizations rose 416 percent."

"Consequently, screening tools, such as the one used by the CDC’s survey, may miss depression in about 1 in 10 males, research suggests.

"'We need to have more of a recognition that boys and men, some of them, not all of them, are suffering,' says clinical psychologist Ryon McDermott of the University of South Alabama in Mobile. 'And we miss them. We miss them in our assessments, and we miss them in our discussions.'"

"Boys and men are struggling. Profound economic and social changes of recent decades have many losing ground in the classroom, the workplace, and in the family. Our attitudes, our institutions, and our laws have failed to keep up. Conservative and progressive politicians, mired in their own ideological warfare, fail to provide thoughtful solutions. Reeves looks at the structural challenges that face boys and men and offers fresh and innovative solutions that turn the page on the corrosive narrative that plagues this issue. 'Of Boys and Men' argues that helping the other half of society does not mean giving up on the ideal of gender equality."

"Girls are blowing past boys in school, and while most men are poorer than they were 50 years ago, women’s incomes have risen across the board. A new kind of gender inequality is drawing men into MAGA’s poisonous politics. Richard Reeves joins Charlie Sykes for the weekend podcast."

"Like many parents, I’ve seen how school is harder for my son than my daughter. 'Boys are 50 percent more likely than girls to fail at all three key school subjects: math, reading and science,' writes Reeves. Things don’t get easier when boys grow up. Men’s rates of work force participation have fallen and their suicide rates have risen. It’s possible to believe that sexism remains a major impediment to women’s flourishing and also believe that for many boys and men, life is much harder than it should be."