With the small, pedantic caveat that getting as far as
ending sexual violence, whether by raising better boys or by doing anything else, is asking a tad too much, yes I think it's a great article. But then, article titles often say things the writer of the article does not, in order to get more clicks.
I've only been a father to girls, but if I'd been a father to boys, I reckon I'd definitely have tried to bring them up in this way.
On a wider note, there is evidence to suggest something quite (indeed very) interesting about the difference between being the parent of boys and the parent of girls. I've long had a proto-theory, or let's just say a fledgling hypothesis, that the sex of one's children might affect one's leanings. I've wondered, for example, if those feminists more willing to see the male point of view and be less anti-male (or anti patriarchy), or more sympathetic to men's issues, are more likely (if they are parents) to be parents of boys, as a rule and generally speaking I mean, or even if there is just any sort of statistical correlation.
My notion might then introduce the more general idea of how self-interest or perceived self interest (via parental investment in this case) subtly colours our thinking, which is something I often muse on (because of another theory I have that humans are generally more motivated by self interest than is often admitted). Not that there's anything necessarily wrong with self-interest, but it could be said to introduce a form of underlying bias and one that may not be easily noticed by the bearer of it.
Now, one could say that it's not just that, that on a more positive note another possibility is that having daughters, particularly for a father, can open one's eyes to issues that might have hitherto been quite invisible. Which is good. And perhaps by the same token, raising sons, particularly for a mother, may offer the same benefits in reverse.
So here is some material I found online:
Having Daughters Rather Than Sons Makes You More Liberal
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/having-daughters-rather-than-sons-makes/
"The authors demonstrate that people who parent only daughters are more likely to hold feminist views (for example, to favor affirmative action)."
Daughters and Left-Wing Voting
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/ajoswald/daughtersrestat08.pdf
"The authors’ key finding is that support for policies designed to address gender equity is greater among parents with daughters. This result emerges particularly strongly for fathers. Because parents invest a significant amount of themselves in their children, the authors argue, the anticipated and actual struggles that offspring face, and the public policies that tackle those, matter to those parents."
And on a more anecdotal level:
This Is How Having A Son Changed Feminism For Me
https://www.scarymommy.com/having-son-changed-feminism-for-me/
"This all hit me one day while I was browsing the shelves at my neighborhood Target (my happy place). My son was 3 years old, and I was looking for his first batch of “big boy underwear.” I looked through the selection and realized that there wasn’t a single option available in his size. Puzzled, I stepped back a bit. And then a bit more. And then I realized something I never noticed before: The boys’ section of Target was about a third the size of the girls’ section. Every area of the boys’ department was ransacked, depleted, and understocked, while the girls’ section was full, every size properly represented. Rainbows abound and cartoon birds aflutter — it was a goddamn utopia. The boys’ section was small, brief, and they were always out of rain boots."
The writer ends up advocating the sort of things suggested in the OP but in her case she seems to have arrived at it via having a son and appreciating male issues more than she had done beforehand, when her feminism was more one-sided, more focused on women's issues.
Perhaps the author of the OP article has a subtly different emphasis. She advocates the same things regarding bringing up boys (and has a son) but says,
"Hearing Christine Blasey Ford’s story, I thought of my 4-year-old daughter and the ways I can prepare her to survive in this misogynistic world". To describe 'the world' as 'misogynistic' is a strong claim by any reasonable standards and suggests less sympathy for men's issues generally perhaps, compared to the writer of the last article.
