Women are socialized to take advantage of four informal options for emotional support: husbands; womenfriends; children; and parents. Men are sociali… - Warren Farrell

Unemployment to a man is the psychological equivalent of rape to a woman.

When I was doing a book tour in Japan for Why Men Are The Way They Are, I was told of an institution called the snack. The snack works like this: A man is coming home from work, and has had a bad day. He doesn’t feel that his wife wants to hear about it, so he pays between $50 and $80 for a snack —a sandwich and a drink and an attractive woman who will listen empathetically to him—sort of a beautiful psychologist with refreshments. No men need apply.

Your son may simultaneously feel that the male role is pressuring him to feel obligated to earn money someone else spends while he dies sooner.