Parents, demand the best for your kids. Churches are failing boys—and the data proves it. Two powerful studies, one from Australia and one from the U.S., show what we’ve known all along: boys don’t need pizza parties and 25-year-old youth pastors. They need their fathers. They need elder men. They need formation, not entertainment.

In this post, I explain why the 1950s-era youth ministry model is malpractice in today’s crisis of fatherlessness and male fragility. It’s time to dismantle the systems that isolate boys from the adult life of the church—and build structures that support fathers and embed boys in intergenerational formation. High school boys aren’t kids—they’re covenant sons. And they deserve better.