I find some of his ideas about single parent families quite ''shaming'' to be honest.
The message seems to be, women, stick it out, endure your bad relationship for the children because statistics show that children need two parents. All true I'm sure but so many single mothers put up with so much before they called time. The problem is that the men cannot seem to behave in a way that shows a minimum level of respect to the mother of their children.
So instead of his message about boys needs fathers, he needs to take it back to the fathers who either leave or can only be around if they get to control the mother. I know he's not saying ''be controlling'' to the men he preaches to. But there is a message I'm receiving that boys need a father around. Yes jordan, we get it, but how do we make the father treat us in a way that is respectful enough that we can say, ok, this works.
He says schools are failing boys, but women still aren't paid as well and he says that's right and dandy, they're not producing the money in their chosen paths, but then he also advises a female 30 year old lawyer to get married and have children because family is everything. Hmmm, maybe it can be if you get it right. But whether you marry well, or badly, your bank isn't giving you a reduced rate mortgage for being a woman. You have to earn what you can.
So many of his ideas are jumbled up and come back to an ''ideal'' format that we women can't enforce. ie, making a man behave respectfully, or making him be a great father even if he is angry at his son's mother, or putting family first but then still saying that it's reason and logic that women aren't generating the profits in their chosen careers to earn the same as men. If that's the case why does it even matter that boys are being failed by the schooling system?