The Pathway for Boys

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i'm a lifelong libertarian, why is the government in the business of marriage? This should be no private contracts between people. I think it's better to be married than not married, because it changes the commitment you have to another person. But i still, like, to this day, would have preferred my parents day together. You now, short if i know there's good reasons for divorce, alcoholism, rug abuse, physical abuse - those aren't reasons to bal on your family. And so when i had ten years in my first marriage, i just turned sour and i thought, well, tme what's tme going to do with my kid at the time?! It was sad

Shermer and Reeves discuss: • comparison method: U.S. vs. other WERID countries • education • work/labor market • family • marriage • Divorce/custody/spousal support/child support • intersectionality I: Black boys and men vs. White boys and men • intersectionality II: poor boys and men vs. middle class/upper class boys and men • What is a man? (nature and nurture in the making of a male) • what the political left gets wrong about boys and men • what the political right gets wrong about boys and men • solutions: red shirt boys early; men in STEM and HEAL • fatherhood as an independent institution

Richard V. Reeves is a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, where he directs the Boys and Men Project and holds the John C. and Nancy D. Whitehead Chair. He is the author of Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It(2017) and a regular contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic.