Description:"To Raise a Boy is a clear-eyed and sometimes shocking view of the world that we have created for boys, and a call for change." —Peg Tyre, author of the New York Times bestseller The Trouble with Boys
"A stunning work of investigative journalism that looks at the systems and structures that have failed our boys." —Soraya Chemaly, author of Rage Becomes Her
A journalist's searing investigation into how we teach boys to be men—and how we can do better.
When the #MeToo movement erupted in 2018, journalist Emma Brown was home nursing her six-week old baby. Disturbed by the cascade of stories about abusive men, she was confronted by a powerful question: How would she raise her son to be different?
Brown carried this question with her as she traveled around the country, from bucolic rural towns to distressed urban neighborhoods and the nation's most affluent suburbs. She interviewed hundreds of...