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the right to their children while fathers are left to fight for them—with laws giving priority to equal shared parenting. President Trump, with an executive order, can create a White House Council on Boys and Men to make the boy crisis a national priority so millions of parents and sons do not feel isolated and ashamed—but instead supported to address a solution toward stronger families, more boy-friendly schools, and a greater economic and psychologically secure America. ✠

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WARREN FARRELL, PH.D., is the author of The Boy Crisis and Role Mate to Soul Mate , plus The New York Times bestseller, Why Men Are the Way They Are. He was chosen by The Financial Times of London as one of the world’s top 100 thought leaders. Dr. Farrell chairs The Coalition for

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Endnotes 1 National Center for Health Statistics. (2017). Table 30. Death rates for suicide, by sex, race, Hispanic origin, and age: United States, selected years 1950-2016. Health, United States, 2017. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2 Liu, Q., Wang, Y., Wang, H., & Zhang, J. (2018). The reciprocal relationship between parental monitoring and Internet gaming disorder in adolescents: A three-wave longitudinal study. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, Article 95. https://doi.org/10.3389/ fpsyg.2018.00095. 3 Flynn, J.R. (2006, January 24). IQ decline and Piaget: Does the rot start at the top? The Guardian. 4 OECD. (2015). The ABC of gender equality in education: Aptitude, behaviour, confidence, PISA. OECD Publishing. This statistic is based on the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) results, which show that boys are more likely than girls to be low achievers across the three core sub jects (reading, mathematics, and science) in most participating countries. 5 National Center for Education Statistics. (2025). Program for International Student Assessment (PISA). Retrieved from https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pisa/. PISA is coordinated by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), an intergovernmental organization of industrialized countries conducted in the United States by NCES. 6 Xu, J., Murphy, S.L., Kochanek, K.D., & Bastian, B.A. (2016). Deaths: Final data for 2013. National Vital Statistics Reports, 64 (2). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. https:// www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr64/nvsr 64_02.pdf. 7 CBS News. (2019, March 10). Federal Reserve Chairman

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