On the Crisis of Men | The Point Magazine

Sociologist Michael Kimmel, director of the Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities (yes, this exists) at Stony Brook University, says that men tend to pitch in more with childcare than with housework—but as with housework, they’re selective about the kind of childcare that they will do. “What happens in a lot of middle-class families is that

SOURCE #2: FAMILY Historically, Dad was a critical piece in the manhood puzzle. But in our age of absent fathers, this piece is missing.

My wife and children needed me to step into my greater role in the Larger Story, the role God created me to play. But how? Serve more, give more, do more? Sin less? That was the good old religious program I had been working at for several years. But it was doing far more harm than good. As with smoking cigarettes or living in a home with asbestos i

Observing his struggle I saw how little support men received when they chose to be disloyal to patriarchy. Although these two liberal men were more than two generations apart, neither had given the question of love much thought. Despite their support of gender equality in the public sphere, privately, deep down, they still saw love as a woman’s iss