Pulling the Thread

Pulling the Thread

What's Happening to Our Boys?

Niobe Way offers some clues.

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Elise Loehnen
Sep 25, 2024
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I have been reading and thinking about male loneliness a lot lately. This is partly because I am the mother to two sons and partly because I recognize the slow-moving crisis unfolding around us. Boys and men are in trouble. I wrote about this in On Our Best Behavior in the chapter on Sadness and how the long-tail effects of cutting boys off from their f…

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