Boys, A Rescue Plan: Moving Beyond the Politics of Masculinity to Healthy Male Development

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Perhaps in no previous time has it become more obvious that boys are struggling. Their mental health challenges have become severe. Boys are behind girls in education and maturation. Screen time and social media have become an affliction. Many of our sons grow up courting violence. Many others live in quiet desperation. While arguments about the politics of masculinity abound, there is little help today for parents, schools, and communities to raise, educate, and nurture boys as males. In fact, our post-modern cultures have tried to erase “male” from the conversation. Boys, A Rescue Plan goes against this grain by providing a template for raising our sons into loving, wise, and successful adult males.

Since Michael Gurian’s publication of The Wonder of Boys in 1996, grass roots programs have blossomed to serve as models for what works to help young males. Features of many of these programs join with Sean Kullman’s work on statistics, graphics, and analytic tools to provide readers with practical strategies for social change in communities. The structure of the book also makes it useful to high school and college classrooms that study child and adult development. An emotional and epic journey through the issues boys face and the solutions proven to help them, Boys, A Rescue Plan is a powerful and profound read for parents, citizens, legislators, and anyone involved in the care of our sons.

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Boys, A Rescue Plan captures the crisis we see among many of our boys and provides solutions proven to work over the last three decades. This rescue plan is packed with practical neuroscience-based strategies everyone can use immediately.
—Daniel Amen, M.D., New York Times Bestselling Author of Change Your Brain, Change Your Life and Founder of Amen Clinics.

In their wonderful new book, Boys, A Rescue Plan, the authors speak unabashedly about the male brain and offer a no-nonsense guide to helping our sons thrive.
—Christina Hoff Sommers, Ph.D., New York Times Bestselling Author of The War Against Boys.

As a retired Administrative Coordinator of Instruction for the Black Student Achievement Plan in the Los Angeles Unified School District, I find the work in Boys, A Rescue Plan highly relevant to issues facing children of color.
—Glynetta Fletcher, Ed.D., Retired Principal and ACI, Los Angeles Unified School District

I always look forward to the excellent resources that Dr. Gurian creates and the pages of this book, co-written with Sean Kullman, are filled with an abundance of ideas and practical tools we will be sure to use here at The Center, A Place of Hope. As you read, you will have many moments of insights and find yourself saying, “That is just what I needed!” With two sons of my own, I am passionate about reaching and saving our boys and this is the tool to do just that.
–Dr. Gregory Jantz, Bestselling Author of The Anxiety Reset, Co-Author of Raising Boys by Design, and Founder of The Center, A Place of Hope.

I have been a supporter of Michael Gurian and the Gurian Institute’s work for the better part of twenty years, and I have served with Sean Kullman on the Advisory Board of The Boys Initiative. In Boys, A Rescue Plan, the authors have come together to create a rare combination of political call-to-action and practical guide to raising boys in a complex age.