What Boys Are Dealing With
Focus on the Family Parenting Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 19 May 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Boys might not be as open about their emotions as girls, but that doesn't mean they're dealing with less pressures. Brooke McGlothlin shares insights with Jim Daly on some of the hard things boys are facing today. You'll also hear from John and Danny at the end about why doing activities is helpful for young men and their development.
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| 0:32.5 | The last time we addressed some of the common challenges for teen girls, today we're going to |
| 0:37.0 | turn our attention |
| 0:37.8 | to boys i'm john fuller along with dr danny werta who heads up our parenting department and |
| 0:43.3 | danny boys uh probably are a little quieter about what's going on in here and up here um inside |
| 0:51.8 | so how do we how do we understand what's going on in my boy and what's normal and what might |
| 0:58.4 | need some extra attention? Well, a lot of times boys are acting out. It's not necessarily quiet. |
| 1:03.4 | It comes out in behaviors. That's a really good observation. It's expressed in different ways, |
| 1:09.2 | not necessarily verbally. It could be fights. |
| 1:11.6 | It could be all kinds of different things that come out. |
| 1:14.6 | Driving fast down the road, it could be seen as substance use. |
| 1:18.6 | There's so many markers that have continued to rise the last five to ten years. |
| 1:24.6 | It is concerning. |
| 1:26.6 | For boys, the rise has continued in depression, in anxiety. |
| 1:31.3 | I mean, anxiety has gone much higher than before. And then loneliness is higher. |
| 1:38.2 | Death by suicide, there's been a trend of that over the decades. And over the last couple of years, |
| 1:44.8 | it's plateaued and gone a little down for boys. |
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