Every day, boys are fed a distorted idea of what it means to be a man. They deserve the skills to question it.

One in three American men says no one really knows him. That disconnect starts early, in the years when boys are working out what it means to be a man and getting much of that answer from the internet: from communities built around dominance and victimhood, where emotional awareness is treated as weakness, and misogyny passes for a joke. More and more boys come out of those years lonelier, more frustrated, and less sure of where they fit.

With the right support around him, a boy can decide for himself what kind of man he wants to be. That's the belief at the heart of my work at Raising Better Men: every boy has it in him to become a good man, and the adults around him are instrumental in helping him get there.