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

by Warren Farrell

Many of the children recruited by Hitler Youth were fatherless boys.21 History Place reported that these boys, once recruited, were isolated in camps where weakness was despised.22 They were trained “without any counterbalancing influences from a normal home life . . . The youngest and most vulnerable boys were bullied, humiliated . . . including repeated sexual abuse.”23 Reports from British and Canadian soldiers fighting in World War II noted that, in battle, these boys “sprang like wolves against tanks.” Even if encircled, they fought until the last boy was killed. “Young boys, years away from their first shave, had to be shot dead by Allied soldiers old enough, in some cases, to be their fathers.”