Warren Farrell on Life

"Anticipating “the end of men” is not exactly an inspiration for your son’s life journey."

"If my parents had made love a tenth of a second earlier or later, I wouldn’t exist. What an enormous miracle, just being given life."

"Does the new heroine mean your son won’t have to risk his life for her love?"

"The rate of PTSD among boys who moved to better neighborhoods was like the rate found among soldiers returning from combat."

"Whether we call it ikigai or sense of purpose, when we pursue what we believe gives life meaning, it gives us life."

"To win wars, we had to train our sons to be disposable. We honored boys if they died so we could live. We called them heroes."

"Tackle football is using taxpayer money to risk the minds and bodies of only our sons before the age of consent."

"Divorces led to bodies of men protecting women collectively as other men failed to protect women individually."

"Compassionate listening positively affects the development of an adolescent’s brain in a way that affects the rest of his or her life."

"Young men between twenty-five and thirty-one are 66 percent more likely than their female counterparts to be living with their parents."

"To me, God is the accumulated wisdom I've gathered throughout my life. When I pay attention, my body gives me a printout of this wisdom."

"It is only now that boys and men under fifty are twice as likely to die as girls and women the same age."

"Sometimes I have a feeling, when I look back on my life, that all I’ve been through has prepared me perfectly for just what I’m doing now."

"We interview people who are extraordinary successes, so they are visible. We ignore people who create a balanced life, so they are invisible."

"Your son may simultaneously feel that the male role is pressuring him to feel obligated to earn money someone else spends while he dies sooner."

"When the National Association of Social Workers studies suicide, they study only female suicide."

"Every day, 150 workers die from hazardous working conditions.i And 92 percent of them are male."

"Sharing instructions about how to perform better for others is very different than sharing feelings about life experiences that make us happy or sad."

"Men with lower sperm count, even if they can reproduce, are likely to have a shorter life."

"The best way to use these lists to replace anger with love in real life is to nurture each other by doing for your partner what your partner normally does for you."

"When your son has sex with a woman, he puts his life in her hands."

"The male-female life expectancy gap has grown almost 400 percent."

"Dads—like moms, air, and water—are essential to our lives."

"When women are at the height of their beauty power and exercise it, we call it marriage. When men are at the height of their success power and exercise it, we call it a mid-life crisis."

"A woman has no right to a unilateral choice that affects the rest of a man’s life any more than a man would have the right to a unilateral choice that affects the rest of a woman’s life."

"If your son is nontraditional, he needs to know that the most important work of his life is selecting a woman who is free enough from social constraints to free him from social constraints."

"Choosing safety is a choice of life over career."

"We would not think of allowing a man to determine a woman’s life merely because a fetus he helped create was in her womb; then why would we allow a woman to determine a man’s life merely because a fetus he helped create is in her womb?"

"When women and men have approximately equal life expectancies, it seems to be because women die not only in childbirth but about equal from… diseases; poor sanitation and water; inadequate healthcare; and diseases of malnutrition. In industrialized societies, early deaths are caused more by diseases triggered by stress, which breaks down the immune system. It is since stress has become the key factor that men have died so much sooner than women."

"Your daughter says, 'Dad. Mom. I want to join the armed services.' You look at her beautiful face, her life flashes before your eyes, and you see a body bag. Now's the time to let her know the biggest military secret: She can join the military and be as safe-from-death as she would be at home. How? In the war in Iraq, not a single woman has been killed in the Air Force. Nor has a single woman been killed in the Marines. And only one has died in the Navy. Your only job is to keep her out of the Army."