If we want boys to succeed, we need to bring them back to education by making education relevant to them and bring in more service learning and vocational education.

The human community and individual people are more likely to hurt or undernourish children they think of as 'bodies' to be used. Cultures and people are more likely to raise children to be mere economic interns rather than fully developed humans if they see children as 'bodies' to be forced into certain economic and social molds.

Father's Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, 'this is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.'

Without fathers you would have no civilization.

Jed Diamond is, quite simply, one of the wisest men writing today on the topic of male emotional and physical health.

Making fun of guys to get them to perform and prove themselves, that's always going to exist. But we have to equally celebrate them and empower them.

As Carl Jung once said, 'When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.' When our boys become adults, we become their inner situation. We become inner voices they often hear in their work, relationships and spiritual practice.