I'm Just Going to Remember What My Dad Used to Do for Me

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The parenting we receive is imprinted on us in a way that inevitably effects, for good or ill, the parenting we pass on. Not having a strong relationship with your father really does seem to affect kits and boys especially, but girls too. Girls mental health at 33 as predicted by their relationship with their father at 16. We have more opportunity now than perhaps the previous generation did because we're not as tied to the traditional role of fathering. But equally, we can't do as some on the left say, and say, so don't need the dads any more,. like forty fathers do anyway. A what unique contribution do they have?

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.