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Highlighting Fatherhood Post-Roe

Highlighting Fatherhood Post-Roe

by | Oct 6, 2022 | ,

In the wake of Roe’s overturning, the pro-life movement has shifted focus toward eliminating root causes of abortion, including economic hardship and lack of postpartum support. In addition to pushing back on calls to enshrine abortion into national law, pro-life groups and politicians are drawing up an agenda that would expand Medicaid and the Child Tax Credit, among other government programs, and provide paid leave and home visiting programs for mothers. While such an agenda certainly addresses some of abortion’s causes, it doesn’t get at the glaring omission in the national abortion conversation: the role of men.

The Boy Crisis

The Boy Crisis

by | Jun 23, 2022 |

As it happens each year, this Father’s Day occasioned appreciation for fathers, as well as laments of fatherlessness. Various outlets reiterated the benefits of father involvement for boys, citing well-known research that boys with fathers enjoy more positive outcomes on nearly every measure than do their fatherless peers. This Father’s Day also took on another meaning as two boys suffering father absence committed atrocious acts of violence in Buffalo, NY and Uvalde, TX. Jordan Peterson, the Canadian clinical psychologist whose video lectures catapulted him into the mainstream, recently tackled this tricky subject in an interview with American political scientist Warren Farrell, whose book The Boy Crisis attempts to understand the loss of purpose and lower levels of achievement experienced by modern American boys.

Men, College, and Competency

Men, College, and Competency

by | Sep 16, 2021 | ,

On Labor Day, the Wall Street Journal published two stories that, in the words of one commentator, “paint a dark picture of our nation’s future.” This picture includes a dearth of marriageable men for a growing share of college-educated women who are having babies outside of marriage. Some are quick to assert that since women today can access education, start a career, and have financial freedom in such large numbers, we should unequivocally celebrate this new development. After all, why is it a problem that women are overtaking men academically? The problem is that in an economy where specialists and managers are valued above tradesman, men who do not gravitate towards a college education have fewer work opportunities where they might be reasonably compensated, and this bodes badly for women and their children. Future generations will suffer if men lose work opportunities and women forgo marriage in record numbers, resulting in a dearth of healthy male role models absent from all children’s lives.

Aaron Renn to Men: Date Local

Aaron Renn to Men: Date Local

by | Apr 1, 2021 | ,

Aaron Renn is an urban analyst who has written for a number of publications, including the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal. But he is also passionate about helping men become their best at time when the world is “ambivalent, at best” about masculinity. As a Christian, he is concerned to find that churches in America rarely if ever offer meaningful advice and formation to men on how to be men. To meet this need, he runs a blog called The Masculinist, along with a podcast where he discusses masculinity, culture, politics, and Christianity.