Dads are important
Item. A study of ISIS fighters concluded that almost all had in common “some type of an ‘absent father’ syndrome.”9
John Gray PhD • The Boy Crisis
Dad deprivation is the main hole in the heart common to boys vulnerable to gangs12 and to boys targeted by sexual predators.
John Gray PhD • The Boy Crisis
Some reports about ISIS find that it is less akin to a religion and more akin to a gang.20 Why? ISIS fills many of the parameters sought by boys without dads: purpose, excitement, and identity.
John Gray PhD • The Boy Crisis
Dad deprivation still leaves boys vulnerable to Nazis—these days, neo-Nazi groups.
John Gray PhD • The Boy Crisis
Many of the children recruited by Hitler Youth were fatherless boys.21
John Gray PhD • The Boy Crisis
even when race, education, income, and other socioeconomic factors are equal, living without dad doubled a child’s chance of dropping out of high school.5
John Gray PhD • The Boy Crisis
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