as a mother struggling to raise two young boys on the autistic spectrum, I found this insightful and was looking for strategies to implement to help my children with their social and educational delays. I agree that this is growing issue and I think my eldest son also has ADHD,he has a very difficult time focusing on class. I think this book, and others like it, are very eye opening and helpful.

This is an excellent read. It's interesting, informative and very insightful. As a mum of two boys I devoured each page of this book in the hope of avoiding in their future some of crises referred to here. As a teacher of 20 twenty years I can totally relate to many of the crises mentioned here also. So many boys drop out of school, become distracted so that the lose all focus on education altogether and are becoming more and more addicted to instant gratification be it through access to tv programmes, being presented with their desires by their parent/guardians or by acquiring their desires by whatever means they deem necessary. So much needs to be done and people need to be educated in this regard. This book is one hundred percent spot on., I recommend that everyone reads it.

I came across Warren Farrell's name while listening to YouTube videos of Jordan Peterson. Needless to say, that was recommendation enough for me, all the more, as this volume raises questions we desperately need to talk about.

Feminism is ever-present nowadays, and not with its original aim to create equality of possibility. Feminism now often seems as a double edged sword and the extreme fanatists injure other women more than men have throughout history.

Warren Farrell draws awareness for the other side: boys. It is not only our daughters who badly need attention and encouragement these days, but our sons as well. By discussing the problems and issues of modern society and their consequences in the lives of the male population, he forces the modern individual to break away from the predestined path of ignoring men and banishing masculinity. His work is something we need badly, and I'll definitely recommend it to anyone who's willing to listen to me.

Honestly, I'm not sure how I felt about this book. There were parts of it I really enjoyed. As the mom of a son, I was challenged by parts of it and found myself thinking, "Ah! This makes sense!" The statistics were sobering. I particularly enjoyed the section on how important it is to teach boys about empathy and the emphasis on family dinner nights and a dad's presence in a child's life.

HOWEVER, I found parts of this book a bit of a "soapbox" for the authors and not actually addressing the boy crisis. The section on ADHD and its causes and natural treatments could have been another book entirely. While I agree that ADHD is a prevalent problem for young men, I also feel that this section took away from the book's larger message. I felt the same way about the section on the White House, Government & the need for men's groups. As a Canadian, this was almost entirely irrelevant, and I wish that it had been a much smaller section of the book.

Overall, I'm glad I read this book, but after receiving it for free to review, I'm not confident I would have purchased it or would recommend to purchase.

Working in a school with troubled youth, I thought that this would be a good book to check out. I found a lot of the information to be relevant, but repetitive. I feel like it would have been better and kept me interested if it had been cut in half. Great effort, but the final result was disappointing.

Interesting book concept and well researched -- the ideas are very thought provoking -- I recommend this book as it is relevant for today's world

This is a very important topic to me but I found this book hard to get into. A lot of facts and statistics are thrown at you when I feel like everyone already knows this is a problem. Stating facts only aggravates me when I'm already looking for a solution. I have fallen victim to a guy still living with his parents, only because he was lazy and didn't want to pay his own way. I've seen depression cripple men and not know how to deal with it. I've done all the housework, cook, clean, and mow the lawn too while my ex husband sat there and wallowed. I agree this is an aggravating and huge problem. I have three sons myself and they battle harder with stress than I did at that age. I just had my daughter turned down yesterday for food stamps because she was under the age of 22, and unable to live on her own. I don't think it's just boys. I agree with a lot of the things in this book but I guess I was looking for a John Gray type book. I got about half way and gave up.

The issue of the Boy Crisis has been on my radar for a couple of years now. I have read a couple of books over the last two years but this book goes a little more in depth into recent studies being done and the fact that our boys/men are being left behind. The book has well documented and researched statistics from many sources. That said, it is still a controversial subject. Our society and the educational environment has been working hard to get our girls raised up – and we are doing a wonderful job unfortunately our boys are now doing a lot worse than our girls ever were.

This book clearly and carefully gives the reader a strong basic understanding of the issues and can give you a lot of conversation starters. While it gives many examples of issues and problems facing boys it was not as extensive on the solutions. Many (maybe too many) examples are given for each of the subjects discussed, such as health, sports and monetary issues which at times makes the book feel a little more fiction(ish).

I believe this book along with a few others written about this subject would give everyone a complete understanding to what is happening to our boys and men.

The Boy Crisis is an excellent book and is a timely topic for sure. I would highly recommend every parent read this book and especially every father or soon to be father. The book backs up what many who work with youth and college students are anecdotally witnessing on a daily basis. The absence of fathers has created a crisis that continues to worsen in our day. The advice and the acknowledgment of the problem make this a book that must be read and talked about among men. I would have given it five stars but I found the section on diet and adhd a little self-serving and really not all that helpful to the original premise. It probably could have been a part of a chapter and then another book on the subject could have followed. But overall, I found the information helpful and plan to give the book to my son to read as he raises his sons to be true men of character.

I highly recommend this book for parents of boys, all educators, and policymakers. We desperately need to find a happy medium these days. While the feminist movement was called for, it has swung the pendulum far too far in the other direction, to the detriment of all of society. (And if the author ever makes that council for men & boys, he can sign me up to help out!) I've already recommended this as a book for a father's group that a friend leads, and made several notes that I'll be pulling from in the future. If you are the parent or grandparent of a boy, or a teacher, then this is a must-read.

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