Do parents talk to their sons?

[Theblacksheepandme]

I have read so much and have become educated more and more on what to look out for by reading the relationships threads. I pass a lot of this information to my 14 year old daughter. I hope by educating her on what to watch out for and learning about red flags it will help her for future relationships.

This made me wonder how many parents and caregivers feel it is important to talk to their boys on the importance of respecting girls and women? Teaching them what is and isn't acceptable behaviour. Asking if their friends acted inappropriately would they say something?

If parents had these discussions with their sons would it lessen the amount of toxic men in the World? Women have a genuine fear for their safety. Are teenage boys even being made aware of this?

I am not looking for an argument and I am certainly not pointing the finger at parents of boys. I am wondering what we can do as a society to change the behaviours of teenage boys?

@SportsMother so many fatherless homes and the evidence supports that fatherless children do less well and are more likely to get into serious trouble.

Toxic masculinity it's just a phrase / buzz word to take a blanket approach to these complex matters.

@sportsmother you have misread my post.

I didn't say women "do it too", i think men's behaviour today is statistically a lot worse, but i also said that men and women are fundamentally the same when it come to capacity for good and self control and emotional intelligence so "toxic masculinity" is meaningless and i think the question is this instead - why are the bad men behaving as they are? What makes an innocent boy grow up to have such a lack of respect for others. I don't know the stats but it seems online and real life sexual expoloitation is mainly men i agree it is sickening

i am guessing you don't have sons though. Those with sons will tell you how they are just as vulnerable as children as girls are. Boys are at significant risk of sickening sexual exploitation (by men) for example. In my dc's class the girls are as bad as the boys in terms of physical and verbal bullying - too young for anything sexual. It is as stressful being a mum of boys as it is a mum of girls.

I asked - what do you want from men, ideally - to not be around at all or segregated or for men to be around aand behave well? I just wondered from your posts if you would prefer a world without men. It isn't a trick question, i just wondered.