What Changes During Adolescence?

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We aren’t doing such a great job raising our boys.

Something is wrong with boys who are socially adrift, lonely, and friendless.

Many boys have other boys they “do stuff” with, but they don’t have real friends.

I see lots of young men accused of sex crimes due to their inability to manage their sexuality intelligently.

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In our efforts to escape poverty, to make mortgage payments, to meet the demands of our jobs, we’ve become simply too busy to raise healthy boys.

The old African proverb, “It takes a village to raise a child,” applies to each one of us. Collectively, we all raise all of our children and right now they are letting us know that we aren’t doing such a great job when it comes to our boys in particular.

I work with a lot of incels (involuntary celibate) who hate women. These men are often heavily influenced by men like Andrew Tate and Nick Fuentes, who often disrespect and blame women for their problems.

All young men, at one time, were beautiful baby boys (Tate and Fuentes included), and then their development simply went off the rails. What happened?

Something is........

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