Where Did All the Male Role Models Go?

Where did all the male role models go?

Boys will always have professional athletes and musicians to look up to, but as the New York Times’s Claire Cain Miller correctly notes, it is the adults that children “personally know” and see on a daily basis who have the most positive effect on children. And for boys, those role models are disappearing. Miller pieces together data from the Census Bureau, the Pew Research Center, and many other sources to show that pretty much every source of …

'Times' Calls for More Male Role Models While Ignoring Role of Fathers

The New York Times concluded last weekend what Focus on the Family (now, officially, a “hate group”) has argued for years — boys need positive male role models. In “What Happens When Most of the Adults in Boys’ Lives are Women,” Times reporter Claire Cain Miller writes, “At a crucial time in their lives, boys are increasingly cared for by women, especially the many boys whose fathers aren’t a regular presence,” continuing: This lack of male role…

What does it mean to be a good man? Boys need fathers -- or male mentors

Boys growing up without a father -- and there are more of them -- have few male role models.