Author, Podcaster, & Professor Scott Galloway on How a Lack of Male Mentors Is Hurting Boys

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'There’s an old proverb that says, “Blessed is he who plants trees under whose shade he will never sit.” For Scott Galloway — Professor of Marketing at NYU Stern School of Business, author, and host of the “Prof G” and “Pivot” podcasts — this proverb perfectly applies to the important work of the men who mentor teenage boys. Unfortunately (and unfairly), mentoring has gotten a bad rap, and Galloway isn’t afraid to put it bluntly: “The Catholic Church and Michael Jackson have f*cked it up for all of us.”
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It isn’t a lack of education, or media influence, or any social movements, said Galloway, that cause a young man to fail: it’s the loss of a male role model. He pointed out a sobering fact: “There are a ton of boys who will go through pretty much their entire adolescence with almost no involvement from men.” The U.S. has more single-parent households than any other country except Sweden. Teachers, up until the third grade, are 92% female. The majority of therapists are women. “We need to get men more involved in boys’ lives,” he said, citing that research shows these circumstances affect adolescent boys differently than their female counterparts, rendering them far less emotionally strong than girls. Though they may be physically stronger, boys are surprisingly fragile when it comes to emotions.'