Studies show that, from a young age, boys are taught to suppress their emotional experience, despite research that shows that boys are more emotionally expressive than girls from infancy through early childhood. Psychologists have also found that children who deny emotional vulnerability are also more likely to become adolescents who engage in health-risk behaviors, such as substance use. Furthermore, later in development, men suppress their emotions more than women; and men, in turn experience greater depressive symptoms, and resort more often to physical violence.

Click here for the full article from Scientific American that explains how boys are being emotionally suppressed, and why its important for boys, and for society at large, for that to change.