Book · 2009 · Psychology
Boys Adrift
The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men
Boys Adrift by Leonard Sax has been mentioned in 2 episodes across 1 podcast (1 episode recommends it and 1 episode discusses it), through . Most frequently brought up by Megyn Kelly (1 episode) and Leonard Sax (1 episode) on The Megyn Kelly Show (2 episodes).
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It's called Boys a Drift: The Six Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men.
Megyn Kelly · The Megyn Kelly Show · Aug 2026 Listen at 1:05 What they say about it
- Discusses the book title“the title of one of my books”2
- Mentions author Leonard Sax“Dr. Leonard Sax is his name”2
The best things said about it
By the way, we're speaking with Dr. Leonard Saxs and the book is Boys a Drift, the fully revised and updated version.
Megyn Kelly The Megyn Kelly Show · Aug 2026 And and again, that's going back to my book, Boys of Drift, where I where I talk about good role models, men like Dietrich Bonhoffer, who gave his life for the right cause.
So yeah, there's there's different factors that affect that's why I wrote a book called Boys called Boys a Drift and a book for girls called Girls on the Edge because the fact and another book called Why Gender Matters.
Why people recommend it
Boys Adrift by Leonard Sax explores the six primary factors driving the growing epidemic of unmotivated boys and underachieving young men in modern society. Megyn Kelly strongly recommended the fully revised and updated edition of the book on The Megyn Kelly Show during a 2026 episode, repeatedly reminding her audience of the title during commercial breaks and closing segments. While discussing the broader societal challenges faced by young males, Kelly highlighted the book's full subtitle and encouraged viewers to explore its findings on adolescent development. Dr. Leonard Sax also referenced the work during a separate appearance on the same program, bringing up the title while analyzing juvenile justice, the struggles of raising boys, and the critical importance of positive male role models such as Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The discussions emphasized that the volume serves as an essential manual for understanding why contemporary youths often struggle with motivation and how educators and parents can better support their development through structured guidance and strong moral examples.
Every mention
Megyn Kelly By the way, we're speaking with Dr. Leonard Saxs and the book is Boys a Drift, the fully revised and update… 1
“It's called Boys a Drift: The Six Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men.”
“He is author of the new Boys a [music] Drift.”
“He is the author of boys a drift.”
“By the way, we're speaking with Dr. Leonard Saxs and the book is Boys a Drift, the fully revised and updated version.”
“He is the author of boys [music] a drift.”
“Dr. Leonard Sax is his name. The book is Boys a Drift.”
Leonard Sax And and again, that's going back to my book, Boys of Drift, where I where I talk about good role models, me… 1
“Uh and the topic was boys a drift, the title of one of my books.”
“And and again, that's going back to my book, Boys of Drift, where I where I talk about good role models, men like Dietrich Bonhoffer, who gave his life for the right cause.”
“So yeah, there's there's different factors that affect that's why I wrote a book called Boys called Boys a Drift and a book for girls called Girls on the Edge because the fact and another book called Why Gender Matters.”
Other mentions (12: passing, ad reads, own books)
“So, in the new edition of Boys of Drift, I paid the Financial Times 450 bucks for the rights to repro reproduce one of their graphs”
“So the subtitle of my book is the six factors driving there are six factors driving the growing epidemic of unmotivated boys and underachieving young men”
“So in in the new edition of my book, Boys of Drift, I I go into some detail about how you can figure out on a one-day visit, is this school boy friendly or not?”
“In the new edition of Boys a Drift, I share a longitudinal cohort study showing that a boy who is suspended from school once, the risk of him being incarcerated for a felony in prison increases by 800%.”
“um and we've got the research which I present in that chapter of boys a drift.”
“And I've included a link to the full text of Justice Alo's remark in the new edition of my book, Voice of Drift”
“and I explore this at length in in the chapter on uh ADHD and boys in the new edition of boys drift”
“And I fought to include in the new edition of Boys of Drift detailed guidance for parents to determine does your kid have ADHD?”
“I own the copyright to Boys of Drift. Photocopy chapters four and eight from the new edition of Boys of Drift.”
“though there is a better approach which I describe in chapter 4 of boys uh excuse me chapter five no chapter four of boys a drift”
“Yes, absolutely I think it's such an illuminating story And I've seen this so much in my own practice as a family doctor now for more than 30 years So many boys want to be heroes They want to be seen as heroes They want to see themselves as heroes in their own eyes You know, I spoke some years”
“And again, that's going back to my book Boys A Drift where I talk about good role models Men like Dietrich Bonhoeffer who gave his life for the right cause Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a pastor He had a comfortable job preaching in New Jersey in 1938 and left that job, went back to Nazi Germany Put his life in jeopardy”