The Boy Crisis: Why Our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It

by Warren Farrell

But it is crucial to let your son know that when unmarried couples live together when their child is born, by the child’s third birthday, 40 percent of those children will have no regular contact with their dad for the next two years—between ages three and five.11 Ask your son if he is willing to put his child at a 40 percent risk of having no regular contact with him prior to the age of nine, when the impact of that is not only a shorter life expectancy (as predicted by shrinking telomeres), but also those other 70+ risks to his well-being.12 For the first time in US history, more than half of children born to mothers under thirty were born outside marriage.